Unable to load file with non-ASCII name via Bytes.fromFile on Mac/Linux target

[tobil4sk]

For example, this returns null when the file clearly exists:

lime.utils.Bytes.fromFile("/home/user/é.txt"); // null

Files with ASCII names load fine:

lime.utils.Bytes.fromFile("/home/user/e.txt"); // returns correct contents

This function ends up using SDL_RWFromFile:

lime/project/src/backend/sdl/SDLSystem.cpp

Line 759 in d75b9f9

result = SDL_RWFromFile (filename, mode);

According to the documentation of this function, it should support utf8... so I'm not sure what exactly is going wrong here. See: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_RWFromFile

[tobil4sk]

So, it seems HXCPP uses UTF16 for unicode strings, so that would make sense why it doesn't work if UTF8 is expected.

Looks like this problem was solved for Windows but never for Unix systems:
7a3b9f6#diff-32f7dcd12e1b85aaef9967aba781da613f5e834c9934b9fed994eb6b368813bdR634-R636

[tobil4sk]

#1472 seems to resolve this issue.

[Shallowmallow]

Oh it's kind of important. Wonder why it hasn't been merged.

[tobil4sk]

Yes, hopefully it can be merged soon.