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bug #59287: Functions shouldn't use `glob` on Windows

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Sat 17 Oct 2020 02:27:06 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 29 Nov 2020 03:08:07 PM UTC, comment #2: 

˙copyfile`, `movefile`, and `fileattrib` still aren't working for files containing non-ASCII characters on Windows. But at least, this is no longer due to `glob`...

Closing as fixed.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Mon 23 Nov 2020 04:36:49 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I pushed a change on default here:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1c212b36a35e

Marking as ready for test.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Group administrator
Sat 17 Oct 2020 02:27:06 PM UTC, original submission:  

In bug #59231, it turned out that `glob` doesn't work with non-ASCII characters in directory or file names on Windows.
There was also a report on the discourse forum which might have been caused by this issue. [1]
Since we are using functions provided by gnulib to get `glob` on Windows and gnulib uses the ANSI API on that platform, the only way to fix that would be to re-implement `glob` on Windows using its Unicode API. Imho, this is out of scope of a project like Octave.

On the other hand, `__wglob__` will be working with non-ASCII characters in Octave 7.
So until `glob` is fixed upstream (which I doubt will happen in the foreseeable future), the next best solution would imho be to use `__wglob__` on Windows.

For completeness: The difference between `glob` and `__wglob__` is that `__wglob__` only supports the wildcards "*" and "?" (not patterns like "[abc]").

.m file functions that are currently using "glob" are:

  • copyfile.m
  • fileattrib.m
  • movefile.m
  • unpack.m
  • pkg/private/rebuild.m


[1]: https://octave.discourse.group/t/pkg-installation/316

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