Support for UTF-8 Characters in File Paths

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Re: Support for UTF-8 Characters in File Paths

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Manis1972 wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:24 am I've encountered an issue when trying to open files with paths that contain UTF-8 characters in XnView Classic. The application throws an error and fails to display the images. Although using short paths is a temporary workaround, it's not very convenient.

Is there any plan to support UTF-8 characters in file paths in future versions of XnView? Or is there a more effective solution to this problem?
Supported now in XnView MP... :D
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Re: Support for UTF-8 Characters in File Paths

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Please try the newer XnView MP, which fully supports Unicode and is under continuing development... :D
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