Filename and command line encoding issue on Windows #13869

1. 
   ken2812221 commented at 7:09 pm on August 3, 2018: contributor

   This issue tracks the TODO list in order to fix the encoding issue on Window.

   Currently Bitcoin Core uses the ANSI encoding on Windows so that it would affected by user’s language settings, they might not able to open some non-ASCII name files.

   You can test all these changes in #13787 (includes leveldb changes)

   Open PRs:

   • Package the Windows installer in unicode mode (NSIS 3+) (#13827, Up for grab, or wait for Ubuntu 20.04 gitian builder host)

   Merged PRs:

   • Create the startup shortcut file in unicode mode (#13734)
   • Make filelock work on unicode filename (#13862)
   • Use _wfopen instead of fopen on Windows to pass unicode filename (#13866)
   • Make boost fs::path .string() to be always encoded to utf-8 (#13877)
   • Wrap ifstream and ofstream to accept unicode filename. (#13878)
   • Get the command line arguments using unicode (#13883)
   • Make bdb read the filename using utf-8 (#13884)
   • Make runCommand works on unicode filename (#13886)
   • Convert all (...)A function to (...)W on Windows if it is related to filename or command line. (#13888)
   • Convert boost filesystem error messages from local multibyte to utf-8 (#14192)
   • Make leveldb read the filename using utf-8 (bitcoin-core/leveldb#18)
2. ken2812221 renamed this:
   Encoding issue on Windows
   Filenam encoding issue on Windows
   on Aug 3, 2018
3. ken2812221 renamed this:
   Filenam encoding issue on Windows
   Filename encoding issue on Windows
   on Aug 3, 2018
4. fanquake added the label Windows on Aug 4, 2018
5. fanquake added this to the milestone 0.18.0 on Aug 4, 2018
6. ken2812221 renamed this:
   Filename encoding issue on Windows
   Filename and command line encoding issue on Windows
   on Aug 6, 2018
7. 
   ken2812221 commented at 7:44 pm on August 30, 2018: contributor

   @sipsorcery @NicolasDorier Mind take a look at this?
8. 
   NicolasDorier commented at 2:05 am on August 31, 2018: contributor

   Amazing work, ye.
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Windows

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0.18.0