readshortcut fails on file name

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue May 16 23:17:00 GMT 2017


Am 16.05.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Nellis, Kenneth:
> I have a Windows shortcut with Unicode character U+2013 (EN DASH) in its name.
> readshortcut fails to read it, but if I rename it removing the EN DASH,
> readshortcut reads it correctly.
I have a patched version of readshortcut that fully supports Unicode.
I will provide it in a few days.
Actually, I have it waiting for contribution for a while already, but 
did not find time yet to patch mkshortcut as well...
Thomas

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