Author Topic: SFML 2 image::SaveToFile does not support utf8? (Read 2114 times)

dvoid · « **on:** February 09, 2011, 03:25:25 pm »

im trying to use image::SaveToFile with an utf8 encoded string, but it fails. im guessing its not supported? would be nice with a FILE* version of SaveToFile. and maybe a SaveToMemory =)

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2011, 03:44:27 pm »

UTF-8 filenames will most likely be supported in SFML 2.

Abstract data access for resources may also be implemented one day.

For now you can just convert your UTF-8 string manually before calling SaveToFile.

dvoid · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2011, 03:58:25 pm »

what do you mean convert it manually?
it is already in utf8 format? what should i convert it to?

i need to be able to save files to the users home directory , which is a unicode
path encoded in utf8 ( that is a non wide string ) .

Laurent · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2011, 05:05:51 pm »

I don't have much control on the third-party libraries that I use for image loading/saving, but I guess they yse the current global locale's encoding.