• k2 (2/2) Jul 14 2005 sysErrorString are using "A" function.
• Regan Heath (27/29) Jul 14 2005 This should do the trick, I suspect.
• k2 (39/39) Jul 14 2005 The following sample codes get an error, "Error: 4invalid UTF-8 sequence...
• Regan Heath (9/50) Jul 14 2005 Ahh, of course, FormatMessageA is giving a multibyte result which isn't ...

k2 <k2_member pathlink.com> writes:

sysErrorString are using "A" function.
If OS environment is multibyte, that result include multibyte string.

"Regan Heath" <regan netwin.co.nz> writes:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:24:36 +0000 (UTC), k2 <k2_member pathlink.com>  
wrote:
 sysErrorString are using "A" function.
 If OS environment is multibyte, that result include multibyte string.

This should do the trick, I suspect.

//This code should be considered public domain
wchar[] sysErrorStringW(uint errcode)
{
     wchar[] result;
     wchar* buffer;
     DWORD r;

     r = FormatMessageW(
	    FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
	    FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
	    FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
	    null,
	    errcode,
	    MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language
	    cast(LPWSTR)&buffer,
	    0,
	    null);

     /* Remove \r\n from error string */
     if (r >= 2)
	r -= 2;
     result = buffer[0..r].dup;
     LocalFree(cast(HLOCAL)buffer);
     return result;
}

Regan

k2 <k2_member pathlink.com> writes:

The following sample codes get an error, "Error: 4invalid UTF-8 sequence", on my
PC:

import std.file;
import std.utf;
import std.c.windows.windows;

extern(Windows) export
int MessageBoxW(HWND hWnd, LPCWSTR lpText, LPCWSTR lpCaption, UINT uType);

void main()
{
try{
std.file.isdir("notexist");
}catch(Object o){
MessageBoxW(null, toUTF16z(o.toString()), null, MB_OK);
}
}

isdir, etc are using sysErrorString.
So, I think this is better:

char[] sysErrorString(uint errcode)
{
char[] result;
wchar* buffer;
DWORD r;

r = FormatMessageW(
FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
null,
errcode,
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language
cast(LPWSTR)&buffer,
0,
null);

/* Remove \r\n from error string */
if (r >= 2)
r -= 2;
result = std.utf.toUTF8(buffer[0..r]);
LocalFree(cast(HLOCAL)buffer);
return result;
}

"Regan Heath" <regan netwin.co.nz> writes:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:54:46 +0000 (UTC), k2 <k2_member pathlink.com>  
wrote:
 The following sample codes get an error, "Error: 4invalid UTF-8  
 sequence", on my
 PC:

 import std.file;
 import std.utf;
 import std.c.windows.windows;

 extern(Windows) export
 int MessageBoxW(HWND hWnd, LPCWSTR lpText, LPCWSTR lpCaption, UINT  
 uType);

 void main()
 {
 try{
 std.file.isdir("notexist");
 }catch(Object o){
 MessageBoxW(null, toUTF16z(o.toString()), null, MB_OK);
 }
 }

 isdir, etc are using sysErrorString.
 So, I think this is better:

 char[] sysErrorString(uint errcode)
 {
 char[] result;
 wchar* buffer;
 DWORD r;

 r = FormatMessageW(
 FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
 FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
 FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
 null,
 errcode,
 MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language
 cast(LPWSTR)&buffer,
 0,
 null);

 /* Remove \r\n from error string */
 if (r >= 2)
 r -= 2;
 result = std.utf.toUTF8(buffer[0..r]);
 LocalFree(cast(HLOCAL)buffer);
 return result;
 }

Ahh, of course, FormatMessageA is giving a multibyte result which isn't  
UTF8. FormatMessageW gives a unicode result AKA UTF-16.

Does it bother anyone else that we do UTF conversions all the time? Here  
we go from UTF-16 to UTF-8. I noticed in particular doFormat uses a  
delegate taking a dchar so each and every character formatted gets  
converted to/from dchar. It just seems inefficient in some way.

Regan