XnView Software

why not use glib to enable unsupported string formats for opening file paths in xnview? glib is cross platform and glibmm is c++ wrapper, easilly deployed by downloading gtkmm prebuilt api for win32 which includes glib and glibmm as part of gtkmm dependencies. http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows
I've waited so long for XnView to open asian character file paths.

locale_to_utf8 and locale_from_utf8 are such make-it-easy automagical functions!

all the best
nim

For unicode filename, you have XnViewMP

mmmm Nice initiative! How about making it open source? The #1 problem of open source software, the lack of a clear direction and design decision making would probably be mitigated by the fact that: Most participators would already have tried XnView and know what to model XnViewMP after? Just a thought.

Anyway will follow the development progress with interest!

Cheers!