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Win32 console: non-ASCII file names output incorrectly
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Environment

Windows XP Professional Russian SP2
precompiled GPG

Description

Non-ascii directory/file names are shown incorrectly in messages like "gpg: keyring created '%filename' or national equivalent:
gpg: создана таблица ключей `C:/Documents and Settings/╦х°р/Application Data/gnupg\secring.gpg'
/╦х°р/ is in wrong encoding

How To Repeat

install fresh GPG on windows machine with username (home folder) written in non-ASCII.

Fix

WinXP uses different codepages to represent Unicode in console output and in file names:
OEMCP for console (e.g. DOS866 in Russia)
ANSICP for filenames (e.g. Win1251 in Russia)

To represent national file/dir names in console output correctly, something like
printf('File: %s',AnsiToOem(singlebyte_filename)) must be always used.

Event Timeline

info added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.May 21 2005, 10:58 AM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Jun 1 2005, 7:33 PM

We can't do much about it. Cluttering the code with W32
specific conversion routines is not an option.

• werner added a comment.Jul 20 2005, 7:51 PM

There is nothing we can do about it right now. With
libestream it would be possible to do something about it.
The actual problem is that we can't use a static buffer for
converting the filename and allocating the memory is too
intrusive.

• werner added a project: Stalled.Jul 20 2005, 7:51 PM
marcus added a subscriber: marcus.Dec 10 2008, 6:09 PM

In principle, this can happen on Un*x systems, too. There is no guarantee about
the filesystem encoding. Glib has special interfaces for filename conversion
(G_FILENAME_ENCODING) to deal with this.

• werner added a comment.Jul 1 2011, 11:40 AM

If gcc's print format checks would only support custom format string extesions
we could easily implement a filename specifier. Without that we are not able to
use format string checks which is something I don't want to miss.

marcus added a comment.Jun 14 2017, 6:47 PM

We can do this with estream now.

marcus removed • gnupg-hackers as the assignee of this task.Jul 17 2017, 6:26 PM
marcus added a subscriber: • gnupg-hackers.