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Re: CFStrings on Win32

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Subject: Re: CFStrings on Win32
From: "Theodore H. Smith" <delete at elfdata dot com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:14:36 +0000
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On 27 Jan 2006, at 17:00, Dave Addey wrote:

Hi Thomas,

I set about investigating the string in more detail, and here's a thing - on Mac, the encoding is reported as &h8000100 (= kCFStringEncodingUTF8), but on Win it is reported as 5316944 (that's an integer, not hex) which I don't
recognise.  I can't find it in the CoreFoundation headers, either.

Flip the bytes, and see what you get?

This is making me wonder more and more if the memory is a bit screwed on Win, perhaps due to the way I'm allocating it. Does anyone recognise that
encoding as being valid?

Dave.

From: Thomas Tempelmann <listuser at tempel dot org>
Reply-To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic- plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:16:13 +0100
To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: CFStrings on Win32

Dave Addey wrote:

       const char *FileLocationCString =
inParameters->FileLocation->CString();
       // this always returns a cstring with weird characters

Check the length - is it twice the size of what you expect?
then you have a unicode string made of 16 bit chars. In that
case, theo's on the right track: you may or may not need to
swap the bytes, and then tell the cfstring builder that you
are passing a utf16 string to it (thru the encoding parm, probably).

Thomas
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