API functions do not accept certain characters in file paths

[paul-krug]

API function (tested with vtlSegmentSequenceToGesturalScore) can not load the input file if the respective paths contains chars such as 'ä,ö,ü,ß'. The same files work fine when renamed.

[Simon-Stone]

Using the CMake or the Visual Studio build?

[paul-krug]

CMake, I did not test the VS build yet

[Simon-Stone]

The reason is that all strings are handled with (narrow) characters of type char. To properly handle special characters like ä or è we need to switch to unicode, which means wide characters of type wchar_t.

This is a larger change which will be handled soon™.

[paul-krug]

Was this fixed?

[Simon-Stone]

Nope. Like I said above, it's a bigger change than one might think, with a few implications regarding cross-platform compatibility on top. For the foreseeable future, please use paths without "special" characters.