[Gdal-dev] Can't open a sid image under Russian locale

[Frank Warmerdam]

Peng Gao wrote:
> The path name passed into GDALOpen() is a multibyte string converted from
> a Unicode string using Windows call wcstombs().

Sean,

This is the case in Gao's application at least.  In general, it should
be in a form suitable to pass to the fopen() call on the system in
question.  I believe similarly encoded filenames have worked fine with
fopen().

Best regards,
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