But I can't figure out why the Windows short filename doesn't work - it seems Firebird is converting it back somewhere, and then failing on that?

isc_file.cpp converts the short filename back to a long filename.

So, it looks like a filename containing >8-bit characters is simply not going to work on Windows with Firebird. UTF-8 gets converted back to 8-bit ANSI, and short filenames get converted back to long filenames in an 8-bit string also.

I'm just trying to store a db in the user's home directory, which may contain Chinese characters if their login name does. Windows allows this.


Hamish