TextEditor input encoding

Windows
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Hello,

I have a Label that spawns a TextEditor when clicked. The input is used to rename a project i.e. a bunch of files and directories. However the filenames are incorrect or corrupt if i input non ASCII i.e. scandinavian characters, such as åäö. This works fine on MacOS, but on Windows i believe there’s a text encoding problem somewhere on the pipeline.

I believe my Windows uses non UTF8 character set natively, CP-something.

Which encoding does the TextEditor input? Is the text from TextEditor in the OS native encoding?

Which encoding should the File methods have? Should this be in the OS native encoding?

Any ideas for a simple solution? Simple conversion at the right place perhaps?

I’m on JUCE 7.0.7

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the projucer has a tool that can convert any character to something juce::String can interpret. you could manually code a hack that manipulates the text like that, but i agree it would make more sense if texteditor did that automatically