ogr user wrote:
Dear all,
I've been looking around GDAL codebase and I can't see anything that
would deal with wide/multybyte characters for file names/paths on
Windows. Would you please confirm that on Windows GDAL will only be able
to open files with pure ASCII names, not international charset?
Mr. Xonx,
You are correct - there is no special handling for multibyte characters.
On some operating systems the underlying file open functions support
UTF-8 filenames, but I believe this is not the case for windows where
we mostly use CreateFile() in the non-wide character form.
I had hoped to hack something in to address this for 1.7.0 but I never
got to it. It hasn't been a priority for any of my clients so far.
On the good side, an adjustment in gdal/port/cpl_vsil_win32.cpp could
fairly easily enable support for UTF-8 filenames for most drivers.
Best regards,
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