+
+ /* Dark voodoo which, I think, gets boost::filesystem::path to
+ correctly convert UTF-8 strings to paths, and also paths
+ back to UTF-8 strings (on path::string()).
+
+ After this, constructing boost::filesystem::paths from strings
+ converts from UTF-8 to UTF-16 inside the path. Then
+ path::string().c_str() gives UTF-8 and
+ path::c_str() gives UTF-16.
+
+ This is all Windows-only. AFAICT Linux/OS X use UTF-8 everywhere,
+ so things are much simpler.
+ */
+ std::locale::global (boost::locale::generator().generate (""));
+ boost::filesystem::path::imbue (std::locale ());