[CMake] Unicode path wrecks havoc with VS2013 generator

[clinton at elemtech.com]

----- Original Message -----

> I have tried to open the solution by the IDE itself, but that fails to load
> the solution also. It report the same error while trying to load the
> projects inside.

> Shall I rebuild CMake with the mentioned patch to make it work, or can I hope
> of a patch that solves this problem?

You can manually edit the visual studio project file to replace "utf-8" with "Windows-1252" (or whatever is appropriate for your language) and load the project in visual studio. 

If that works, can you please modify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx to change from "utf-8" to "Windows-1252" to see if you can build the rest of your project. 
Let us know so we can include a fix. 

Clint 

> Feladó: clinton at elemtech.com
> Elküldve: ‎szombat‎, ‎2013‎. ‎november‎ ‎9‎. ‎7‎:‎14
> Címzett: cmake at cmake.org

> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 11/8/2013 4:48 AM, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have the following issue, which I do not know whether it is an issue
> > > of CMake or Visual Studio. When I try to generate a Visual Studio
> > > project under a path that contains unicode characters, VS fails to
> > > compile the simple test file and thus CMake terminates project
> > > generation. Visual Studio does have some issues with projects under
> > > unicode paths, but generally things work. (For eg. the C++AMP call tree
> > > generator breaks, therefore no C++AMP project can be built in such
> > > paths) I develop all my applications in my Skydrive folder which is
> > > under the Users folder, and since my name holds unicode characters, I
> > > have no control over mw home folder under Win 8 if I have a Live-ID user
> > > in the OS. This is what happens:
> > Clearly you need to change your name. :)
> >
> > Can you create a simple project from the IDE in that directory and get
> > it to work?
> >
> > If you run CMake with --debug-trycompile, can you load the solution in
> > the CMakeTmp directory from the IDE?
> >

> This problem can also be reproduced with English as the current language.
> Just pick a character between 128 and 256 to include in the name of the build
> directory.
> For example, buildñ, and run cmake in there pointing to any source tree.

> For me, the Visual Studio 9 2008 generator works fine and the project file
> reports an encoding of Windows-1252.
> It fails with the the Visual Studio 10 generator where the project file
> reports a utf-8 encoding, but it really isn't utf-8.
> So I get errors like this:
> C:\...\cmake\buildñ\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\cmTryCompileExec926
> 91608.vcxproj(56,110):
> error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Invalid character in
> the given encoding. Line 56, position 110.

> Modifying cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx to set the encoding of the
> visual studio file to Windows-1252 instead of utf-8 fixes the problem for
> me.

> Clint
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