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Topic: problem with special characters in file paths

Posted By: Cord Viking
Subject: problem with special characters in file paths
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 10:25AM

The following file path specification for function signfile() will result in an errorcode 2 "pdf-file not found":

AFilePath := 'E:\Users\j.düvel\AppData\Local\test.pdf';

AQuickPDF.SignFile(AFilePath,...)

We have to create this path from the environment variable %USERPROFILE%, so we have no control over what username has been choosen.

Is there a solution for this problem?

Replies:

Posted By: Cord Viking
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 10:28AM

The editor also has a problem with these chars, hope display is correct here:

AFilePath := 'E:\Users\j.düvel\AppData\local\test.pdf'

Posted By: Cord Viking
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 10:30AM

Disabled wysiwyg, hope display is correct now:

AFilePath := 'E:\users\j.düvel\AppData\local\test.pdf'

Posted By: Cord Viking
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 10:33AM

sorry - now way, giving up!
Anyway, the problem should be the dot, so use this as example:

AFilePath := 'E:\users\j.duevel\AppData\local\test.pdf';

Posted By: Rowan
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 11:12AM

You need to encode your string with UTF-8 encoding if it uses any unicode characters.

var
 FileNameW: WideString;
 FileNameA: AnsiString;
begin
 FileNameW := WideString('C:\unicode') + WideChar(20081) +
WideString('\test.pdf');
 FileNameA := Utf8Encode(FileNameW);
 QP.SaveToFile(FileNameA);
end;

Posted By: Cord Viking
Date Posted: 08 Nov 10 at 11:39AM

Problem solved! Thank's a lot!