FileSystem with wchar_t, how hard?

[Nyxojaele]

How hard would it be to convert the CFileSystem class to use wchar_t for directory structures and whatnot? Is it just a matter of changing all the const c8 * to const wchar_t *, stringc to stringw, and all the OS specific functions to call wide character equivalents, or is there something more that I'm not seeing?

The reason I ask is because I develop for Japanese systems, and there is quite often directories named in Japanese, and obviously, using only regular char's is insufficient for that- so for example, using the default IGUIFileOpenDialog, navigating to a Japanese directory will display it just as "????????????", and for the same reason it displays it that way, you cannot navigate INTO the directory either.

[rogerborg]

I guess the best way to find out would be for someone who wants this done to do it themselves.

[hybrid]

There are no file system calls etc. which do provide the proper interface that I know of. Do you have a link to such methods?

[Nyxojaele]

Well if you're talking about all the function calls such as
fopen() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.80).aspx
_getcwd() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library ... S.80).aspx
_chdir() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library ... S.80).aspx
then yes, there are widecharacter versions of them (at least, according to the MSDN links I just provided).. But I know nothing of the *nix equivalents, since I know you're more well-acquainted with it.

[hybrid]

That's interesting, we'll keep those in mind for the new file system implementation.