[wx-dev] wxMac wxFileExists problem

[Robin Dunn]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:25:50 -0400 David Elliott <dfe at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> DE> When wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 then the wxString::mb_str converts from 
>> the  DE> UTF-8 gotten from m_impl.c_str() to wide characters.  It then 
>> converts  DE> from wide characters using the specified wxMBConv.  
>> There's actually a  DE> minor issue here in that this is truly 
>> unnecessary in Robin's  DE> particular case since the particular 
>> wxMBConv_cf instantiation is the  DE> one for UTF-8 and thus if it 
>> simply returned true from IsUTF8() then  DE> the conversion could be 
>> bypassed entirely.  But that doesn't really  DE> fix the bug with the 
>> conversion so we'll ignore that for now.
>>
>>  Why is wxMBConv_cf used at all for UTF-8 conversions though? I 
>> thought we
>> always preferred to use wxMBConvUTF8 for them?
> 
> What about for fn_str?  That is the case I've been dealing with.
> 
>     const wxCharBuffer fn_str() const { return mb_str(wxConvFile); }
> 

Oh, BTW, while working on this I noticed that wxFileExists calls wxStat 
with filename.fn_str() and wxStat also uses filename.fn_str().  I expect 
one of then should not be doing so, but which one?  (I would guess 
wxFileExists but figured I should ask to be sure.)


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