Re: [PATCH 1/2] winepath: add option to output paths in the current Windows ANSI code page

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Lei Zhang"  writes:
> It's occasionally useful to be able to get the Windows path in the
> Windows ANSI code page, so I added the --ansi command option to
> winepath.

The ansi code page is not supposed to leak out of a process. What do
you need this for?

[PATCH 1/2] winepath: add option to output paths in the current Windows ANSI code page

[Lei Zhang]

On 7/16/07, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> "Lei Zhang"  writes:
> > It's occasionally useful to be able to get the Windows path in the
> > Windows ANSI code page, so I added the --ansi command option to
> > winepath.
>
> The ansi code page is not supposed to leak out of a process. What do
> you need this for?
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> [e-mail]

I have a shell script that calls winepath -w to get the windows path
from a unix path. Then I want to stick the value into the registry by
a search and replace in ${WINEPREFIX}/*.reg.

[PATCH 1/2] winepath: add option to output paths in the current Windows ANSI code page

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Lei Zhang"  writes:
> I have a shell script that calls winepath -w to get the windows path
> from a unix path. Then I want to stick the value into the registry by
> a search and replace in ${WINEPREFIX}/*.reg.

That's a bad idea. You should use regedit, which will avoid potential
conflicts with a running session, and will take care of the encoding
(the Ansi codepage is *not* the right encoding for reg files).