Hi, > Is there a way to set the base directory on Windows (mingw-w64) if the > directory name contains non ASCII characters. > > char * bindtextdomain (const char * domainname, const char * dirname); > > the function takes a const char* dirname
On native Windows, 'char *' strings are encoded using the so-called "ANSI code page", which depends on the system locale (windows-1252 in Western Europe, for example). The charset conversion functions of Windows support 65001 as an alias for UTF-8, but there is no locale which would have this encoding. > On Windows, the OS does not work with UTF-8 strings so that I guess > it would not work. Correct. 'char *' strings in Windows API functions are almost never UTF-8 encoded. > What can I do? You can use Cygwin. Cygwin nowadays uses UTF-8 as 'char *' encoding for all locales. Bruno
