Re^4: Weird encoding after grabing filenames

in reply to Re^3: Weird encoding after grabing filenames
in thread Weird encoding after grabing filenames

Thank you very much that was waht i needed.

Allow me to ask this: Why only the path strings were plain ascii chars and the filenames were non-ascii which lead me to the extra use of Encode::from_to() to show it properly?

Does it has to do with the way(type of encoding) Vista encoded its filenames? And if this is the case here why encode the folders differently?

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Re^5: Weird encoding after grabing filenames by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2009 at 14:13 UTC
Because some characters are encoded the same in both ISO-8859-7 and UTF-8. So even though you program was buggy, you still happened to get some correct output.	[reply]
Re^6: Weird encoding after grabing filenames by Nik (Initiate) on Jun 17, 2009 at 17:11 UTC
But the data that actually got prined correctly weren't greek characters. They were data composed of english letters like "/home/nikos/public_html/data/text".	[reply]
Re^7: Weird encoding after grabing filenames by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2009 at 17:23 UTC
Despite the "but", that doesn't contradict what I said. Those are characters that are encoded the same in both ISO-8859-7 and UTF-8. Specifically, U+0020..U+007E are encoded the same in ASCII, ISO-8859-* and UTF-8.	[reply]

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