<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Sean McBride <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@rogue-research.com" target="_blank">sean@rogue-research.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Why add any of the complication? Just require people to use UTF-8.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>On Windows, kwsys and most IO classes still do filesystem operations using the local 8-bit encoding. Which is silly, I know, considering that Windows provided unicode APIs 22 years ago. But I don't see anyone volunteering to fix this, which means that, right now, some people will have to use encodings other than utf-8 for their filenames.</div><div><br></div><div> - David </div></div></div></div>