Just a note to all you guys out there working on apps with international characters. Or am I just talking to myself?:

DirList() and its ilk do not handle ANSI 8-bit characters. So if one has folder and/or file names with 8-bit characters one has to do the necessary conversions oneself.

First (if 8-bit folder names) one must make sure InitDir is fed a path name in MSDOS text:

declare subroutine AnsiToOem

MSDOSPath=Path

AnsiToOem( MSDOSPath, MSDOSPath )

InitDir MSDOSXPath:"\*.*"

If this is the first time one uses the AnsiToOem subroutine one must also declare it. The opposite function - OemToAnsi - is already declared in OI. To declare AnsiToOem open row DLL_KEYBOARD in SYSPROCS:

KEYBOARD

VOID PASCAL OemToAnsi(LPCHAR, LPCHAR)

Add the line

VOID PASCAL AnsiToOem(LPCHAR, LPCHAR)

Then from the Exec line do

run DECLARE_FCNS 'DLL_KEYBOARD'

Second (if 8-bit file names) one must convert the file names returned by DirList from MS-DOS text to ANSI with OemToAnsi. So if FileNames is a @FM-delimited array from DirList, one must

declare subroutine OemToAnsi

NumFileNames=count( FileNames, @FM ) + (FileNames "")

for F=1 to NumFileNames

Temp=FileNames

OemToAnsi( Temp, Temp )

FileNames=Temp

next F

(Don't try to OemToAnsi-convert the whole array. That will make your @FMs into underscores. And don't try to let OemToAnsi return directly into an array element.) (Btw - remember to consult the DirList() docs for how to get back more than 4000 chars of file name data.)

- Oystein -

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