Problematic Chinese Filenames

[armsys]

It seems BC2 treats Chinese filenames as corrupted files during file comparison when Windoex XP region is set to English. Does BC2 support Unicode/Double-byte characters?

Armstrong
Hong Kong

[Chris]

Re: Problematic Chinese Filenames

Armstrong

Beyond Compare 2 supports Unicode files, but not Unicode file names. Unicode file names will not be supported until at least BC version 3.

[Zoë]

Re: Problematic Chinese Filenames

Chris is correct. BC only supports Ansi filenames right now, so to compare files with Chinese names you need to have your regional settings set to Chinese too.

[Guest]

Re: Problematic Chinese (or Russian) Filenames

Just to let you know: this is not a problem just in China. I'm a user in the UK using English WinXP. I have some files on my hard drive with Cyrillic characters in their filenames. Windows Explorer shows these filenames correctly. BC2 can't handle them (shows question marks for the Cyrillic chars and runs into errors trying to copy).