Unicode filenames

[Scott Wheeler]

Colin Kern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to open files with unicode filenames using TagLib?  I
> am using Qt, so I have a QString of the filename I want to open.
> Right now, I pass filename.toUtf8().data() to the TagLib::FileRef
> constructor, since it takes a const char*.  This works for files that
> just have ASCII filenames, but fails if there are unicode characters.
> QString::unicode() returns a const QChar*, and I'm not sure how to get
> a FileRef from that.
>   

Filenames in TagLib are always in the system encoding.  For Qt, you'd use:

FileRef ref(QFile::encodeName(filename).data());

-Scott