Unicode filename support on Windows

[Robert Vanyi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 14:54, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:47, robert.vanyi at gmail.com said:
>
>> The Japanese string in the filename contains three characters:
>> katakana TE (U+30C6)
>> katakana SU (U+30B9)
>> katakana TO (U+30C8)
>> from this page: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
>
> I am not an expert for Windows character set encodings, but is seems that
> you use the UTF-8 encoding whereas Windows uses UTF-16 encoding.
>
> GnuPG does nothing special with the filenames, it takes them as they are
> and passes them verbatim to the Windows system fucntion for file
> handling and console output.  I don't know wether tehre is a way to pput
> the Windows shell in an UTF-8 mode.

It was UTF-8 only in my email, originally I was passing it as UTF-16.
I was trying to do it via the command line and via the Windows API
(CreateProcessW) as well.

Thanks,
Robert

ps. On Windows 2008 there is a command line tool called chcp to change
codepage, but I haven't done much testing with it.