Thread: FindNextFile & File names containing foreign characters

Hi,

Presently have a working application that just hit an issue with filenames that contain foreign characters. When doing a loop with FindNextFile, those characters are shown as "?" question marks. So when we try to open the file, we get an error later on. Doing Dir in the directory where the file is located, we see this.

12/15/2009 12:51 PM <DIR> .
12/15/2009 12:51 PM <DIR> ..
12/07/2002 11:12 AM 20,480 ???? ????? ??????.doc

So even trying to use NotePad from the console, we get an error cause those are not the right chacters. If you use the FileOpen dialog, you can open the file though, and you will see those special characters. So wondering if there is a way to retrieve a file name properly here using FindNextFile, or if we need to use something else. If so, what.

Thanks.