[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Support for UTF8 filenames on Windows

[Kalle Blomster]

Hi.
Currently, ffmpeg on Windows does not support opening files whose names contain 
characters that cannot be expressed in the current locale, because on Windows 
you can't pass UTF8 in a char* to _open() and have it work. You have to convert 
the filename to UTF16 and use _wopen(), which takes a wchar_t instead.

I have attached a patch that attempts to solve the problem with a rather ugly 
hack. It Works For Me(tm) under mingw at least. Comments are appreciated.

Regards,
Karl Blomster
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