| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] embedded database with Chinese path |
|---|---|
| Author | Hamish Moffatt |
| Post date | 2017-10-04T03:25:23Z |
On 03/10/17 19:59, Dimitry Sibiryakov sd@...
[firebird-support] wrote:
exactly what the Windows short path names are for - if your application
can't handle Unicode filenames, use the short names. I tried it and it
fails. Firebird explicitly converts the short path name back to a long
name it can't use?!
It seems to mostly work with UTF-8 on linux, or at least I had it
working a couple of years back.
Hamish
[firebird-support] wrote:
> 03.10.2017 2:25, Hamish Moffatt hamish@... [firebird-support] wrote:Thanks for confirming what I figured from the source. But this is
>> Any ideas?
> Give up. Firebird does not support unicode characters in database name and path. Only ANSI.
>
>
exactly what the Windows short path names are for - if your application
can't handle Unicode filenames, use the short names. I tried it and it
fails. Firebird explicitly converts the short path name back to a long
name it can't use?!
It seems to mostly work with UTF-8 on linux, or at least I had it
working a couple of years back.
Hamish