From e46aab17880503c866f515bd677f24951d165b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: h_vogt <h_vogt>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 14:20:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] function newfopen to replace fopen by reading wide char
 strings

---
 src/misc/util.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/misc/util.c b/src/misc/util.c
index 6801eb860..a4c14ddf3 100644
--- a/src/misc/util.c
+++ b/src/misc/util.c
@@ -257,3 +257,25 @@ ngdirname(const char *name)
 }
 
 #endif
+
+#ifndef EXT_ASC
+#if defined(__MINGW__) || defined(_MSC_VER)
+#undef BOOLEAN
+#include <windows.h>
+FILE *
+newfopen(char *fn, char* md)
+{
+    wchar_t wfn[BSIZE_SP];
+    wchar_t wmd[16];
+    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, md, -1, wmd, 15);
+    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, fn, -1, wfn, BSIZE_SP - 1);
+    if (MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, fn, -1, wfn, BSIZE_SP - 1) == 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion failed with 0x%x\n", GetLastError());
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s could not be converted\n", fn);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return _wfopen(wfn, wmd);
+}
+#endif
+#endif
+