Win32 Unicode (UTF-8) support

Hello.

My build is kind of a "minimal" build with no extra lib's enabled. This
binary is a byproduct of my LameXP software, where those extra lib's are
simply not needed. Sorry.

If you need those extra lib's, you will have to build yourself with my
UTF-8 patch and the extra lib's enabled. Things would of course be
much better, if they simply adopted my UTF-8 patch (or another solution
for proper Unicode support).

Regards,
MuldeR

On 13.05.2015 20:44, J. P. wrote:

Hello,

I am attempting to use your binary to SoX and I am having a little
difficulty.

I assume it is a direct replace for the official Sox binary release
for Windows. However, when I replace it, yours was unable to see the
helper libraries. So, with the original I could process FLAC files
(just had issues with Unicode file names), and with yours, I get an
error that it is unable to process FLAC files.

Please advise.

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[patches:#105] http://sourceforge.net/p/sox/patches/105 Win32
Unicode (UTF-8) support

Status: open
Group:
Created: Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:56 PM UTC by MuldeR
Last Updated: Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:56 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

On the Windows platform, SoX currently supports file names in the
user's current ANSI Codepage only - whatever Codepage that happens to
be - but it fails horribly with any "foreign" characters in the file
name. This patch resolves the problem. It's essential for Windows users.

Put simply, command-line parameters are retrieved using the
Wide-String (UTF-16) Win32 functions and then converted to UTF-8
internally, so all "char"-Strings inside SoX will be in proper UTF-8
encoding in Windows too (just like in Linux, where we get that "for
free"). Also, whenever any System functions, like fopen(), stat() or
unlink() are used on Windows, we convert back to Wide-String and call
the Wide-String version. This is required, because in Windows the
"char"-String versions of these functions do NOT support Unicode/UTF-8
at all!

This all is handled transparently in the "unicode_support.c" file.
Changes to original SoX code are restricted to a minimum. A similar
patch was committed into Opus Tools, by the way.

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