Re: Copying files with special characters

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 10 Sep 2008, at 05:48, Sheldon Gill wrote:
> I think the correct *step way would be:
>
> BOOL did_copy;
> NSString sourcePath = @"German Fährhaus.jpeg";

The meaning of 'ä' in the string literal is undefined ... strictly  
speaking a string literal must only contain us-ascii characters.
You could use a unicode escape sequence in a property list to work  
round this ...

sourcePath = [@"\"German F\U00E4hrhaus.jpeg\"" propertyList];

> NSString destPath = [[NSHomeDirectory()]  
> stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"A00"];
> NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
>
> if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath: sourcePath])
> {
>     did_copy = [fileManager copyPath:sourcePath
>                               toPath:destPath
>                              handler:nil];
> }
>
>
> If this doesn't work on your system, please file a bug as it should  
> work everywhere GNUstep does.  That said, it would appear to be a  
> problem with your OS/locale combination.

Yes.