Does TC understand UTF-8

[philk]

Hello,

I wonder in which character format I should send filenames from my FS-Plugin back to TC? Sending UTF-8 Characters lead to garbage being displayed.
Is there some documentation about the supported character formats?

Thanks in advance!

[poiuytr]

According to FS-Plugin writer's guide 1.3 there is no unicode support in Plugin API.

[philk]

Ok then. Into which character set should I transfer my utf-8 chars then? Currently selected codepage for the running process (TC)?

[poiuytr]

Currently selected codepage for the running process (TC)?

Why not.

[philk]

It does not work. Converting the UTF-8 to Unicode and then to Multibyte produces "?" signs in TC. However having filenames with Unicode Characters in my usual filesystem on a NTFS volume, TC is able to display cyrillic letters.

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander does NOT currently support Unicode in any plugins. This is planned for TC8 only, and will require a LOT of changes to the program.

[philk]

Thanks for paying attention Christian! I was only wondering cause I can see cyrillic letters when I browse my harddisk with TC just fine.

Does TC use different methods to convert disk filenames? I remember it asked me once when I navigated into a directory with cyrillic filename that I need to install language support or something like this. But I could be mistaken. Still I can see cyrillic letters in diskfolders just fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for paying attention Christian! I was only wondering cause I can see cyrillic letters when I browse my harddisk with TC just fine.

The normal file functions now support unicode names, also for copying and deleting, but not for plugins, ftp, archives etc.

[Alextp]

2philk
TC uses ANSI codepage for filenames. Nor UTF-8 nor Unicode are not supported.