Re: [wxlua-users] GetCwd() doesn't return unicode path on windows

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> Does wx.wxFileName.FileExists("SomethingInThatDir.txt") work, showing
>> that SetCwd() worked?
>> If so then, it'd be a problem with GetCwd(), but I cannot think of any
>> reason why it wouldn't work off the top of my head...
>
> yes, it does seem like the problem is with GetCwd, and it should be
> easy to reproduce:
>
>> wx.wxFileName.SetCwd([[D:\Lua\下载\下载\]]); print(wx.wxFileName.FileExists("foo.lua")); print(wx.wxGetCwd()); print(wx.wxFileName.SetCwd(wx.wxGetCwd()))
> true
> D:\Lua\??\??
> false
>
> As you can see, the file is there, but using the result of GetCwd to
> set it as the current folder fails (returns "false" the second time).

Hummm, I can't get to Windows machine right now, but I wonder if it's
something to do with the conversion to a Lua ansi string rather than
wxGetCwd() not returning the right value.

Try this:

s = wx.wxString([[D:\Lua\下载\下载\]])
print(s:GetData())
s2 = s:GetData()
print(s2)

Regards,
    John