[PD-dev] UTF-8 problems on Windows

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

There is a problem on Windows that has me stumped.  If you open a file with a non-ASCII character in the name or path using "pd -open" it works fine.  If you open it using File -> Open, then it freezes Pd.  If you print the filename to the Pd window right before its sent to Pd, it prints properly:

C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,coüüümma.pd

But running "pd.com -d 3" shows:

pd open comma\,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/pd/Desktop;
open: C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory
comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory

So somewhere in the network receiving the unicode is going wrong, but only on Windows.  Its a bad bug for anyone who uses non-ASCII letters on Windows. Any ideas?

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