HD72506: A CATIA V5 SESSION ON AN ENGLISH MACHINE CANNOT OPEN A FILE IN A FOLDER CONTAINING JAPANESE CHARACTERS

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• A CATIA V5 session on an English machine cannot
  open a file on a Japanese machine if the file path
  contains Japanese characters.
  It is possible to open the file on a Japanese
  machine because the machine locale is setup to
  Japanese.
  This clearly points to the use of mbcs encoding for
  strings despite related API such as
  CATDocumentServices::Open signature using a
  CATUnicodeString to handle the file path.
  A unicode string should be self sufficient and
  should not depend on the locale to be interpreted.
  It should be possible on a English machine to open
  files stored in directories containing Japanese,
  Hebrew, Korean characters without any specific
  change to the machine settings.
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Impossible to open on an englsh windows machine a
  file stored on a japanese windows machine in a
  folder whose pathname includes japanese characters.
  CATDocumentServices::Open fails because it uses
  low level apis that do not support unicode.
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM IS A PERMANENT RESTRICTION.
  .
  

Temporary fix

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Fix information

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