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

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**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:** ![toddy](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@toddy](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/toddy)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/what-is-state-of-the-art-unicode-file-names-on-windows/1821/63 "2023-09-07T04:03:18Z")

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Perhaps previously you had your code page set to a Chinese character set? Is there a problem with setting your manifest active code page to UTF8?

> [@Activiz 9.1 display chinese](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/activiz-9-1-display-chinese/8713/10):
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> As far as Activiz goes, I raised the issue about it not supporting utf8 here [Introduction to ActiViz Webinar - #8 by toddy](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/introduction-to-activiz-webinar/3396/8) and, two years later, nothing has been done. It is actually not difficult to fix.

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