On Monday, January 01, 2018 10:47:51 Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 18:21:29 UTC, Domain wrote: > > In Windows, exists, rename, copy will report file not exists > > when you input non-English filename, such as Chinese 中文.txt > > It's unclear what your problem is but here a wild guess. > > Windows API's for Unicode use UTF-16 as far as I know. Strings in > D are utf-8. So before calling win32 API function, they have to > be transformed to wstring i.e. utf-16 strings.
std.file abstracts all of that away for you, and it does have at least some tests that use Unicode characters, though I think that most of the functions don't have tests that use Unicode characters. I would not have expected a Unicode bug like this to be in std.file, but it's certainly possible. It's also possible that the console needs to be set to UTF-8 or UTF-16 or something, since the default often seems to cause problems for folks - though unless the file names are coming from the command-line, I wouldn't have expected that to be an issue. I do almost nothing with Windows though, so I'm not very familiar with the ins and outs of that mess. - Jonathan M Davis
