Unicode issues

[greye]

While working on #668 a while ago I discovered several issues on people understanding Unicode conversions between libraries being used. Therefore this page on Wiki is under development. Probably I won't able to finish resolving #668 due to lack of Windows dev-environment and time to set it up, but concept of solution can be found in patch attached (heavily outdated, probably won't merge).

[Zini]

Pull request please? We normally don't accept patches in this format.

[cc9cii]

if the issue is a lack of Windows dev env - I am willing to help. I can have a go at merging the patch to the latest master if you want. However more than likely I will need some help.

[greye]

if the issue is a lack of Windows dev env - I am willing to help. I can have a go at merging the patch to the latest master if you want. However more than likely I will need some help.

It will be great. It seems like patch applies cleanly to current master, I'll make pull request with note that it is untested.

[cc9cii]

Sorry for crossposting, I left some comments and pics here

[pvdk]

Thanks greye! I noticed the problems with the launcher code when working on the wizard, and I used the correct function there. I hope this fixes the cyrillic path issue on Windows.

[scrawl]

It seems that this issue has cropped up again after the new installation wizard was merged. At least from a user report. From a quick look I don't see any issues in the code though. Could anyone on windows test this?