Re: path names with spaces

FROM : Markus Hitter
DATE : Thu Jan 17 21:31:12 2002

Am Donnerstag den, 17. Januar 2002, um 20:17, schrieb Malte Tancred:

> Douglas Davidson:
>> The BSD layer uses UTF-8.  However, I believe the filesystem
>> may further expect UTF-8 filenames to be canonically decomposed,
>> which fileSystemRepresentation will provide.
>
> Ah, but that's exactely the information I'd like to see
> in the documentation. With a note about possible future
> changes of course.
>
> Why is the documentation always so sparse when it comes
> to these kinds of comments?

You simply don't need it. Do you?

As soon as something is documented, people start relying on it.
With or without a note about a possible future change. This is
what an API vendor wants to avoid, of course.

If you do your decoding yourself, your code will break when the
change arrives. Using -fileSystemRepresentation, it will
probably work as before.


Then, for the rare cases you need the info, there is this Cocoa
Development list ...


Markus


P.S.: using -cString was silly, of course ;-)
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