Hi Sven, On 16 April 2018 at 13:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > Technically, at the File (FilePlugin) level we seem to be able to handle > paths with strange characters, even on Windows, but somehow, somewhere a > bogus call is made during image startup.
I'm not going to have time to look at this in the next few days, sorry. But I have a vague memory that some of the other primitives outside FilePlugin don't add the "\\?\" prefix, so they possibly also don't do wide character conversion. Cheers, Alistair
