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What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++ (mastodon.gamedev.place)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux APIs are 8bit, instead of 16bit, however the filesystem encoding can be anything if the user wants.

In practice we all use UTF-8 but correct software has to encode to the correct one just in case.

There is also still a max path length, but it’s longer like 4096.