IO library has no locale codec support on Windows
There is no support for the locale encoding (aka code page) on Windows in the new IO library. The main reason is that the MultiByteToWideChar API is insufficient to implement BufferCodec, because it doesn't do partial encodings (amongst other things).
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| Trac field | Value |
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| Version | 6.11 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | libraries/base |
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