Can't open file if the path contains non-ANSI characters
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Suppose I have a file in the following path:
C:\樂譜\my_score.mscz
If I open File Explorer at C:\樂譜\ and double-click on my_score.mscz, MuseScore would just report that it's unable to open the file. If I open MuseScore first and then go to File > Open... and open the same file, this will work just fine. This is because my Windows is set at English, not Chinese.
This problem is actually quite common and I have come across it in many different applications. Some managed to do some change in programming to support this with the use of Unicode support. An example is IrfanView.
Comments
See #287955: In Windows Explorer, files with special characters in filepath don't open when double-clicked