Good to know -- thanks. (I'm not a Win32 user, so I wouldn't have known.)

But, do Win32 systems really use locale settings? Would that imply, for instance, that someone using one of the Win32 file systems (NTFS, FAT32 or whatever) could have file names with, say, CP1256 (Arabic) encoding, and someone else use CP1252 (Latin-1), and yet another person use UTF-16LE?

That would be hell...

(update: But... in that other thread referenced by zentara, he said that my code snippet worked for him... What's up with that?)

In reply to Re^3: unicode version of readdir by graff
in thread unicode version of readdir by dk

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