[Win32utils-devel] Problems with win32-dir and create_junction

[Berger, Daniel]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org 
> [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of 
> Heesob Park
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:25 AM
> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Problems with win32-dir and 
> create_junction
> 
> 2008/10/2 Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger at qwest.com>:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org
> >> [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf 
> Of Berger, 
> >> Daniel
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:12 AM
> >> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> >> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Problems with win32-dir and 
> >> create_junction
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Do you think we should automatically strip the trailing 
> "\000\000" in 
> >> the multi_to_wide method then? I think this would work because I 
> >> modified wide_to_multi to automatically append "\000\000" to the 
> >> incoming string if they weren't already there.
> >
> > On second thought, I think that might cause wide character 
> functions 
> > to fail.
> >
> I think it would be better to define new method for getting 
> the wide_string length than to use String#size method.

Here's a minimal WideString class:

   require 'windows/unicode'
   require 'windows/msvcrt/string'

   class WideString < String
      include Windows::Unicode
      include Windows::MSVCRT::String
   
      ACP  = CP_ACP
      UTF7 = CP_UTF7
      UTF8 = CP_UTF8
   
      attr_accessor :encoding
   
      def initialize(string, encoding = UTF8)
         super(multi_to_wide(string, encoding))
         @encoding = encoding
      end
   
      def length
         wcslen(self) * 2      
      end

      alias size length   
   end

Another approach is to monkey-patch String:

   require 'windows/msvcrt/string'

   class String
      include Windows::MSVCRT::String
      def wlength
         wcslen(self) * 2
      end
      alias wsize wlength
   end

What do you think?

Regards,

Dan


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