Issues with non-ascii folders on Windows

[sergeyvfx]

It is not possible to use configuration file which is located in a folder with non-ASCII characters on Windows. This is because simple char* is used to communicate filepath to a config file in Config::CreateFromFile().

In order to have full Unicode support it seems adding similar Config::CreateFromFile(wchar_t*) will be needed. Or at least will need to be done some ASCII->UTF conversion in the function itself.

In order to reproduce the issue it should be enough to simply call Config::CreateFromFile() with a filepath which has non-ascii characters, such as German umlauts for example.

[hsdk123]

Hi, would it be possible to request an update to this? This has major impact on loading from non-english environments on Windows. The fix doesn't seem to be too difficult either.

[EvanAW]

I am looking to get a pull request in for this hopefully later this week.

[Dithermaster]

BTW, the way we solved this host-side was to call GetShortPathName Windows API to convert paths to something that OCIOv1 can eat.