Re: Unicode Paths

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+From: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>\r
+To: Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Unicode Paths\r
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+Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> Hello Again,\r
+>\r
+> I notice in the lib code notmuch_database_open(),\r
+> notmuch_database_create() these functions use const char *path for the\r
+> directory path input. Is this unicode safe?\r
+>\r
+> The python bindings (and ctype docs) seem to suggest using something\r
+> called 'wchar_t *' for accepting unicode but that's for C not C++.\r
+>\r
+> Is this something that should be patched?\r
+\r
+I think as long as the path does not contain embedded null character\r
+then it is safe. Most posix filesystem does not allow null character in\r
+the filename so you cannot use UTF-16 or UTF-32 to encode the unicode\r
+path.\r
+\r
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