Bug in dir() leads to Unicode and win_dir()
While working on my Backup Utility for work, I found a bug in
Euphoria's dir() routine. It does not support extended ASCII
characters and just returns a question mark '?' in place of unknown
characters.
I therefore have written a function called win_dir() which uses
Unicode strings to full support all available characters, as well as
up to 32,767 character path names, instead of just 255. It only works
with Windows obviously, since it calls FindFirstFileW, FindNextFileW,
and FindClose in kernel32.dll.
Seeing as how I forced myself to learn how Unicode strings work, I
also wrote a Unicode Conversion Library that can convert plain ASCII
strings (or sequences) to Unicode values, as well as two very useful
routines, allocate_unicode() and peek_unicode().
Both libraries, windir.zip and unicode.zip have just been uploaded to
the Archive. I hope others find these as useful as I do, especially
Derek, who IMHO should implement Unicode in Win32Lib so that it will
be more compatible with the Windows environment.
~Greg
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