Microsoft KB Archive/325656

= BUG: CabWizSP Does Not Support East Asian Characters in File Names =

Article ID: 325656

Article Last Modified on 9/10/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SmartPhone 2002 SDK

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This article was previously published under Q325656



SYMPTOMS
When you use the CabWizSP utility from the Smartphone Software Development Kit (SDK), files that are listed in the .inf file are not included in the .cab file.



CAUSE
There are East Asian characters in the file name or in the file path that are not included in the .cab file.



RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, rename the files so that they do not include East Asian characters, and then update the file names in the .inf file.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
CabWiz32 is the tool that packages an application into a .cab file so that the application can be installed on the Smartphone device. The .inf (instruction file) that is passed to CabWiz32 can contain extended or multibyte characters. You can use these characters to specify the name and the location of a file on the local system (for example, \My Files\app.exe).

Because CabWizSP silently fails to parse the file names that include East Asian characters, those files are not included in the .cab file.

