Failing to open x64 game in a path with special characters

[h4knet]

Hello,

It seems the x64 version of the game won't launch if the path of the executable contains special characters like "éèàç..".

Here is the log file :

ioq3 1.36_GIT_7d711f8-2024-02-17 win_mingw64-x86_64 Feb 17 2024
SSE instruction set enabled
----- FS_Startup -----
We are looking in the current search path:
C:\Users\Clément\AppData\Roaming\Quake3\baseq3
C:\Users\Clément\AppData\Roaming\Quake3\ioquake3\baseq3
c:/program files (x86)/steam\SteamApps\common\Quake 3 Arena\baseq3
C:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Quake 3\EN\baseq3

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0 files in pk3 files

We can see on the first line that the é is read correctly, but not on the second line (where the game actually is on my PC..).

I've moved the folder somewhere else (without special chars) and everything works fine.

[h4knet]

Here is the content of the folder as proof :

I guess the issue comes from the function :

ioq3/code/qcommon/files.c

Line 3317 in 9881c56

static void FS_Startup( const char *gameName )

And some mis-encoding ?

[zturtleman]

ioquake3 doesn't support non-ANSI characters in paths on Windows. (This affects all file access, not a single place.) It's also reported at #509.

[h4knet]

Indeed; I guess it’s a duplicate then..

But it’s weird to see the others binaries working (dedicated x64 and x86 game) where the x64 game isn’t.

maybe there could be an « easy » fix somewhere as the first line of log was written correctly ?