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Bug 1068

Summary: problem in win32_file_open when the filename have special characters
Product: SDL Reporter: okr
Component: fileAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.14   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description okr 2010-10-22 22:00:49 UTC 
The function win32_file_open convert the original string to UNICODE (line 126, file SDL_rwops.c) and it seems to work, but when the filename have special characteres (ñ, á, ó, etc), the function MultiByteToWideChar delete from the filename these special characteres and fails to open the file. I'm using windows XP sp3, Mexico regional settings.

To resolve this issue, I was disable the unicode string and use the original string, only modifing the line 136 in the file SDL_rwops.c ... using CreateFileA instead CreateFileW, and pasing the original string instead the unicode string.

I'm not an expert in SDL or win32 programming, but by various hours i was googled and not find any information about this problem. 

Sorry if I have mistakes in my report, I'm not an english expert ^^_. And sorry if my report dont have well format, this my first report.
Comment 1 okr 2010-10-22 23:02:17 UTC 
I was revised code from SDL 1.3 and the bug seems fixed ... This report must be deleted? ....
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2011-08-21 00:31:10 UTC 
I'm assuming this was because RWOPS doesn't handle codepages, but only UTF-8...?

Closing bug as INVALID (using non-UTF-8 strings isn't a bug in SDL). It looks like you got it working, but please reopen if this is still a problem.

--ryan.