Thread: opening file problem, encoding?

Hi all,

got another problem using open of ifstream or fopen or whatever on a file in my filesystem.
My program isn't able to open these files, they are encoded ... strange? At least for me

When doing a 'dir' in the console where the files are, this is the output:
28.08.2009 09:52 3'016 r├╝mm├╝k_000080118887.sdtid
26.11.2009 16:04 3'063 ├ä├û├£├Â├ñ├╝_000080118889.sdtid

When redirection the output to a file and opening it with notepad, this is the output:
28.08.2009 09:52 3'016 rümmük_000080118887.sdtid
26.11.2009 16:04 3'063 ÄÖÜöäü_000080118889.sdtid

When looking at them in the explorer it looks like in the picture attached. I've got a standard english Win XP installed, nothing special. The files were made by a third party product, I can't change the way they are encoded, and I can't rename them by hand as I need to run an automation on many of these files...

This is my code I use to open the file.

Code:

int convert_file(char *fname)
{
	ifstream input;
	ofstream output;
	string line;

	//setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
	//setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ".ACP");
	//printf ("Locale is: %s\n", setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL) );

	input.open(fname, ios::in);

	if(input.is_open() == false)
	{
		cout << "File could not be opened!" << endl;
		return 1;
	}

Anybody an idea?...
Chears
Rafael

Hi

the third party application is the RSA Authentication Manager from RSA Security.
GetLastError returns 2, meaning ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND.

I noticed that the filenames have Unicode characters, therefore I already tried using wchar_t/WCHAR strings, but that didn't make any difference. Therefore I'm confused

And yes, other Apps can open the file, I can use Wordpad/Notepad whatever to display the content...

Regards