[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58493] Accentued letter (french accent) in file path problem and Magick++ exception

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #58493 (project octave):

@Andrew: Thanks for the link to that forum post.
It really looks like Magick++'s file path interface is UTF-8:
https://imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/utility-private_8h_source.html#l00128

That makes it much easier for us because "our native" encoding is also UTF-8.
In this case, the original problem might already be solved by this change on
stable (which will eventually be released as Octave 6):
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/39c078e14824

So maybe, we can just revert the troublesome changeset:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/04ee5e8694cb

I'll try that in my next cross-compile.

OT: C++20 is about to introduce a new type char8_t (additionally to char16_t
and char32_t from C++11) that is exclusively for UTF-8 encoded strings. Maybe
there is a little hope that library interfaces will become clearer in the
future.

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