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Hi,

FreeCommander is an excellent alternative to commercial commanders, and it's free.

There is a little problem. It doesn't support non-ASCII characters. If a file name or folder name consists of characters not found in English, such as those in French, German, Spanish, Russian or Asian and Middle Eastern languages, FreeCommander will simply have nothing to do with them. It won't copy, move, delete, rename, open, or execute them, and the user has to use Windows Explorer for these files.

Could you please add support for non-English characters?

As an example, download the file test.zip from the following address, unzip it, and try to manipulate the files in FreeCommander:

http://www.2shared.com/file/cvlqjtvY/Test.html

I could not downloda the file! Maybe you could upload somewhere else?

Hi!
I have the same problem.

Please try to open this archive http://www.mediafire.com/?pfgzt60sdb87s20 with FreeCommander and look at the filenames

Die Weide Und Der Fluß.mp3
02 溝口 ゆうま - 絶叫クールマッチ.ogg
Детские песни.plc

Also FreeCommander uses DOS-names
For example,
it shows

DIEWEI~1
for
Die Weide Und Der Fluß

and

02-OGG~1
for
02 溝口 ゆうま - 絶叫クールマッチ

I agee with you all, UTF-8 gonna be better. But I found an announcement that you should checking before at http://forum.freecommander.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1541