# What is state of the art: Unicode file names on Windows

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-is-state-of-the-art-unicode-file-names-on-windows/1821
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-is-state-of-the-art-unicode-file-names-on-windows/1821 "2019-09-25T14:23:23Z")
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### Author: ![lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/lassoan/32/50_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-is-state-of-the-art-unicode-file-names-on-windows/1821/2 "2019-09-25T20:08:54Z")

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We would be interested in this, too.

Unfortunately, last time it was discussed there was no consensus even in how to store strings in VTK (see [Proposal: Should we replace vtkStdString with std::string](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-should-we-replace-vtkstdstring-with-std-string/796/14)). Reviewing/updating file access APIs would be the next step after reaching an agreement.

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