Comment.

diff --git a/src/lib/util.cc b/src/lib/util.cc
index e76b7aa67b9dac928e9ff0f5e7f08e74c328b608..e7044027155715f2910dd4762d7e94b9b99d5081 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/util.cc
+++ b/src/lib/util.cc
@@ -282,6 +282,14 @@ dcpomatic_setup ()
        /* 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 ());