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?)

I'm not a Win32 user either, but as far as I've gathered (mostly from posts made here by some exotic fellow monks*) windows does allow for filenames to be encoded in several different formats.

How to detect which format is used on a operating- or file- system I don't know. I don't even know if the format is OS or FS wide.

*) note: follow that link at your own peril.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

I use linux.....thats what's up with that. :-) I "assumed" it might work on win32..... well we all know what happens when you assume. ;-)

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