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Re: libcurl - windows / unicode filenames support...

From: Sergei Nikulov <sergey.nikulov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:16:13 +0300

2016-08-05 12:11 GMT+03:00 Rod Widdowson <rdw_at_steadingsoftware.com>:
> Aside, but curious minds need to know.
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> As a newcomer here - can someone help me what "Unicode for windows" means? I have to assume it is in URL handling, not files? The word UTF8 has to be the give-away since UTF8 is a pretty alien concept for windows at the k-mode interface (where I mostly hang out).

+1

UTF-16 (wide character) encoding, which is the most common encoding of
Unicode and the one used for native Unicode encoding on Windows
operating systems.

So I also wondering how it can encode UTF-8 in file names.

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> Is there a case I can look out or is google my friend?
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