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Subject: Re: Bug in findfirst/findnext: mangles certain characters.
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On 28/02/2010 18:43, Robbie Hatley wrote:
> Try renaming THAT file using findfirst/findnext and rename().
> It won't work.  (Findfirst will turn "Ěn-Ít" to "In-It",
> for one thing.  rename() will then complain "no such file".)

The problem is not with findfirst, but with Windows.  It
is /Windows/ that is renaming the file, so there is nothing
that findfirst can do.  The same problem even happens with
Win32 console programs, when switching the file APIs to OEM.
The ideal solution is to use a Windows Unicode program, so
you might want to have a look at MinGW.

Jason.