Re: Handling unicode file names on Windows

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 16/08/2012 09:45, steve donovan wrote:
> One option on Windows is to use winapi:
>
> http://stevedonovan.github.com/winapi/api.html#short_path
>
> winapi.short_path takes an encoded path (UTF-8 or UTF-16) and returns
> the equivalent short path, which can be opened with io.open.

The LuaFAR [1] project has `io' module that overrides the native `io' 
for working in UTF-8 from Lua scripts. In particular, its io.open should 
work fine with Unicode paths.

[1] https://github.com/shmuz/LuaFAR

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Shmuel