fopen non-ascii character error

Question

i cannot use fopen on files includes in their name some characters (example : ş, ç, ı) how can i use fopen on these files ? i'm using vc++ 6 (i have to) and c language. when i was trying to use _wfopen it's never open any file.

Answer 1

Convert your pathname to UTF-16 (probably using MultiByteToWideChar) and use GetShortPathNameW to get a path you can pass to fopen.

Answer 2

Make sure that you have wchar_t (it's a compiler setting) and make sure you're passing in a wchar_t * and not a char * to _wfopen.