Hello Khudyakov, Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:06:06 PM, you wrote:

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i think that FilePath=String is ok, we just need to use utf8 string encoding on unix/macs and utf-16 encoding with *W functions on Windows. i have implemented such support inside my own application, and would be happy to mentor appropriate gsoc project

It won't _always_ work.

current solution works never :)

And there are still 8-bit locales lurking somewhere in bush. UTF8 isn't appropriate for them at all.

i think that SetFilenameEncoding whould solve this, among with access to lower-level openFileUsingCStringPath -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com