> 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).
Thank you. I will try so see if I can encode my path like this. > You can use Cygwin. Cygwin nowadays uses UTF-8 as 'char *' encoding for > all locales. I am trying to make a cross-platform application targetting Linux, mac OS X and Windows and cygwin is not something I want to depend on. Thanks for your help, Frédéric