Unicode fork of Free Manager g6c6d

[JackieKu]

Hello,

It seems the Unicode for FDM is not considered or it is planed but at very low priority by the official team. But I think it is time to do it NOW! Because...

1) FDM not only doesn's Unicode well, but also doesn't system codepage fine. I'm a who speak in Chinese, and feel very sad about its charset handling. I simply can't many files.

2) There is (almost) no Win9x today, so there is no reason to stick in non-Unicode charsets. Actually, if someone still uses the extremely old (and buggy) systems, why he/she minds the new app doesn't his/her systems?

3) No debut most s are using XP or Vista today, the Unicode APIs are more efficient and do things better in such systems.

The above are the reasons I started this fork, I just made FDM can be compiled in VS2008. So there are still many works, if someone could help please me. I created a Git repository on GitHub, see http://github.com/JackieKu/fdm/tree/hack.

[Windmill]

I'm happy that someone is intrested in fdm.

If you like, you can look at my fdm modifications.
Please include it in your modifications (developers didn't want)

I'll be intrested in your fork.

Look at my topic:
http://freemanager.telechargerjeux.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=11047

[JackieKu]

I read the codes of FDM, and very sad for its code quality. It uses many redundant libraries, e.g. MFC/ATL <=> STL and WinInet <=> cURL. I think it isn't easy to convert FDM to a pure Unicode app. So I decided to create a quick and dirty hack to Unicode file names, here is it.

http://kjackie.googlepages.com/fdm.zip

It can single (not batch) file from HTTP server which the file name is not in system codepage. It expects the HTTP server speaking in UTF-8 (which is quite common) or system codepage.

The sources can always be find in the first post.