On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The latter may handle non-ASCII pathnames better on Windows - a quick look at the LuaFileSystem seems not to indicate that it does any UTF-8-to-UTF-16 mapping, it just calls _mkdir(), but we map UTF-8 to UTF-16 and call _wmkdir(). It also matches what we do in C/C++ code in Wireshark.
I'm not sure whether Lua's standard I/O library handles non-ASCII pathnames well on Windows, either. (On Windows, "interprets them in the current code page" doesn't match what Wireshark does with non-ASCII pathnames unless you're using code page 65001.)
