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Re: setup for 1.7 fails with Japanese characters in download

On Oct  3 12:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> For setup it should be sufficient for now to make sure the installation
> directory gets converted to UTF-8, and to change the mbstowcs calls in
> filemanip.cc, function mklongpath() to MultiByteToWideChar (65001, ...)
> calls.

Not quite, of course.  Every path fetched from the system via
GetCurrentDirectory or GetWindowsDirectory or some such, should
be fetched via the W function and converted to UTF-8 explicitely.

But that's not something which should hold up the release.


Corinna

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