Cannot open files and folders with Japanese characters

[gibbson]

I am running XnView 1.97 on Windows XP, german locale wth support for complex characters and east asian languages enabled.

If i try to open a file with a name containing japanese characters from the explorer, i get an error message about an "error while opening file ..." with all japanese characters replaced with question marks. In the internal browser of XnView all japanese characters in names of files or folders are replaced by question marks and if i try to open them, XnView does something(some buttons grey out shortly) but the file or folder doesn't open and no error message appears.

I can change XnView's interface language to japanese without problem and all menus and so forth are displayed properly.

[NM64]

Apologies on the grave-dig, but I too have run into this issue.

This is really annoying for me because I use the Japanese unicode equivalents for the colon and slash since they can actually be used in filenames - that is ： and ／

[obelisk]

I can open fine.
Simply, you can't use one locale and display another's

eg, I use Jp locale, but Chinese chars sometimes breaks /some/ programs.
it's a windows problem.

[gibbson]

That it only breaks file access for some programs, but others work fine, suggests it is a problem of the broken programs. The most likely cause is that those broken programs use a system call to access the file system that doesn't respect unicode. AFAIK Windows offers versions with respect to unicode of all file system system calls. If those system calls with respect to unicode are buggy, the working programs say there is a work around for those bugs.

If XNView is a non-unicode programm please say so and i will accept this bug report is really a feature request you most likely won't fulfill.

[xnview]

If XNView is a non-unicode programm please say so and i will accept this bug report is really a feature request you most likely won't fulfill.

XnView is non unicode, XnViewMP has native unicode support

[viewer]

I run into this bug/feature too. So the new MP version is the only solution?

[obelisk]

no, as I said, change your locale to Jp and you can read Jp.
There's no reason to not do this, as Jp locale can read euro chars fine.

[murkka]

Jp locale can read euro chars fine

Not if you use Cyrillic.

[xnuser]

Same problem with XnViewMP & Cyrillic & Ubuntu 12.04 64

[xnview]

Same problem with XnViewMP & Cyrillic & Ubuntu 12.04 64

you are not in XnViewMP forum So you can't open files with cyrillic filename??

[dante]

hey guys, same stuff with cyrillic names:

xnview 2.04, windows 8, cyrillic files and folder won't show up correctly and won't open in xnview browser, as well as they won't open in xnview using windows browser. i don't remember this going on with windows 7.

oh, and system photo viewer works fine with those files.

[helmut]

XnView Classic (Windows) does not support unicode. So if files or folders use special characters, XnView Classic cannot display the appropriate folder or image. Please use XnView MP if you want to view folders and files with special characters (Unicode). Please note that XnView MP 0.61 is still a test version.