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Bug 1304

Summary: sdl unicode bug on compile vc
Product: SDL Reporter: laybor <laybor>
Component: fileAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: 1.2.14   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description laybor 2011-09-09 09:44:40 UTC 
L"text" in gcc is output UTF8,
L"text" in VisualC is output UTF16,
\src\file\SDL_rwops.c
in "win32_file_open" use unicode,but it's only use UTF8(MultiByteToWideChar)
Comment 1 laybor 2011-09-09 09:49:23 UTC 
so SDL_LoadBMP not support chinese path.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2011-10-12 23:05:15 UTC 
SDL only deals with UTF-8 strings, so this won't work...

    SDL_LoadBMP(L"file.bmp");

...but something like this will...

   char *utf8 = SDL_iconv_string("UTF-8", "UTF-16", L"file.bmp", wcslen(L"file.bmp") + sizeof (WCHAR))
   SDL_LoadBMP(utf8);
   SDL_free(utf8);

This isn't an SDL bug. It's well-documented that SDL wants UTF-8 strings.

--ryan.