[tor-bugs] #10416 [Tor]: Tor won't start on Windows when path contains non-ascii characters

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#10416: Tor won't start on Windows when path contains non-ascii characters
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     Reporter:  iktsuarpok  |      Owner:
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor         |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.3.25
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  windows, unicode
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 > Hm. If we can do this by just handling unicode command-line arguments
 (s/main/wmain/), this won't be hard. If we need to change every place that
 we touch the file system or manipulate a path, that will be a bit harder.

 If legacy program could to set UTF-8 code page to use by legacy functions
 that would solve all problems without any changes, but no such method
 documented and Microsoft want to drop code pages support someday in every
 piece of shipped code.

 Windows native way is to use "wide" functions with "wide" chars to store
 stuff. More simpler solution for less changes is to convert UTF-16
 arguments to UTF-8 and convert back only for windows UTF-16 funcs, but it
 would to break output and logs.

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