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Re: Bug in Eu v3.0.2 include system (Wincows XP Pro, french)

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture.gouv.fr> Apr 03, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> 
> I was testing a program and needed to add the following folder to EUDIR:
> D:\YKNUHW\Privé\telech\win32lib_v006006\Include
> (the last character of Priv? is a e with acute accent).
> Rebooted, file not found. And yet it was there. 
> For safety, I copied the path from Explorer to the environment variable
>  editor, so as to avoid any typo issue. To no avail.
> I copied the folder to D:\YKNUHW\win32lib_v006006\Include and changed 
> the environment variable accordingly.
> Rebooted, file now found.
> 
> So, it looks like include paths with accented characters, which are
>  completely allowed and useful under Windows, are not searched correctly.
> 
> My guess is that the case insensitive search mechanism, which uses upper(),
> 
> doesn't work right for at least some accented chars, but have no time to
>  investigate further right now.
> Any quick fix?
> RDS: any chance to get this fixed?
> 
> CChris

Note that, if I replace, in the tested file, the file name by its full
 quoted path (hence not relying on EUDIR), then the file is found in spite
 of the accented letter in the path.

CChris