[erlang-questions] filelib:fold_files (file:list_dir) and unicode filesystems

[Dmitri Girenko]

Hi all,

I have a process that monitors specific folders for changed files. The
problem is that when a filename contains Unicode characters which are
outside of the system default codepage (Latin-1), those files are just
invisible to erlang. 

There's a workaround for linux - using UTF-8 translation seems to work,
but apparently it doesn't work on windows.

I think that once the "string as a list" problem is settled down, then
the efile driver should be updated to support Unicode filenames, maybe
using UTF-16 string encoding, rather than UTF-8.

Are there any plans to do this? 

Dmitri Girenko

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