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Windows file I/O not internationalized
From: psz () maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:42:09 +1000 (EST)
We have a Windows application (TCL script really) that wants to find the IP address of the PC it runs on; it effectively does cmd /c "ipconfig > ip.txt" then reads the file. This works fine everywhere, except... I have a user with WinXP set to Chinese language. For this user, the file stops after "Ethernet adapter" (contains just 53 characters). Doing ipconfig without redirection in a CommandPrompt window works fine and says the equivalent of "Local Area Connection" in Chinese. Seems to me that file I/O redirection, angle-brackets or pipe symbols, stop at the first non-English character. Is this a known bug or feature? If so, does anyone know a workaround? Otherwise, does this have security implications? Cheers, Paul Szabo - psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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