> Thanks for all the explanation, I think I'm slowly starting to > understand the problem. I've tried to get short names with special > characters, but failed so far (maybe you need a setting for this?). > I'm giving up on this for now and will keep the code path with > MoveFileExW unless you feel strongly about removing it.
Do you use German Windows? Is its ANSI encodings CP1252? If so, maybe `ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ.ly` should not work with `stat ()` in msvcrt.dll. If I understand correctly, `Ä` is 1 byte in CP1252 and is 2 bytes in UTF-8. `ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ.LY` is 8 bytes + 2 bytes in CP1252 and 16 bytes + 2 bytes in UTF-8.
