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Filepath arguments have flaky support for non-ascii strings #89

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Filepath arguments have flaky support for non-ascii strings#89
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@Trico-Everfire
Trico-Everfire
opened on Dec 4, 2025

We discussed this on the discord, just wanted to make an issue abt it. The fix is to overload to std::filesystem::u8path as you stated.

Edit: the solution is to switch to using std::filesystem::path for all filesystem path arguments.

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  1. craftablescience
    changed the title [-]wide characters fail to open paths in fs::readFileBuffer/[/-] [+]Windows: non-ascii paths fail when passed to sourcepp::fs::readFileBuffer[/+] on Dec 4, 2025
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  4. craftablescience
    changed the title [-]Windows: non-ascii paths fail when passed to sourcepp::fs::readFileBuffer[/-] [+]Filepath arguments have flaky support for non-ascii strings[/+] on Mar 20, 2026
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