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[Solved] Lazarus - FileOpen (under Windows) not opening filenames with special characters
Delphi, Lazarus, Free Pascal
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December 18, 2015 8:56 AM
I ran into this little snag while developing a Windows application.
FileOpen simply refused to open filename with special characters - even though the "filename" came from OpenDialog.
Finally I found the solution, to get a file opened with special characters. Use FileOpenUTF8 instead of FileOpen ...
