Subject: Re: bug#7100: 24.0.50; Emacs for MS Windows cannot handle Unicode file name

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:25:07 +0200

> From: =5ddd=5e61 =592a=4e00 <[email-masked]>( Taichi KAWABATA )
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:25:07 +0900
> Cc: 
> 
> As MS Windows Emacs only uses fopen(), readdir(), etc., for handling
> file names, Emacs can not handle Unicode file names.  If Windows uses
> CP1252, only file names with CP1252 characters can be properly displayed
> with Emacs.  (In dired, Unicode file names will be displayed as
> undecipherable file name that contains tilde characters.)

This is currently a missing feature in the Windows build of Emacs.
Patches are most welcome.