In Exiv 0.27.6 there was an overload of ImageFactory::open taking std::wstring and it's gone in 0.28.0

[gh-andre]

I was able to open any file on Windows in 0.27.6, such as hello_🌎.jpg and in 0.28.0 all of these methods are gone now. For example, this one in image.cpp:

#ifdef EXV_UNICODE_PATH
    Image::AutoPtr ImageFactory::open(const std::wstring& wpath, bool useCurl)
    {
        Image::AutoPtr image = open(ImageFactory::createIo(wpath, useCurl)); // may throw
        if (image.get() == 0) throw WError(kerFileContainsUnknownImageType, wpath);
        return image;
    }
#endif

On Windows passing UTF-8 into CRT won't work - Windows expects _wfopen called with UTF-16 code units, so there appears to be no way anymore to open files in 0.28.0 that could be opened just fine in 0.27.6.

Anybody knows what happened to these methods and if there's a way to get them back in 0.28.0?

[gh-andre]

Turn out @piponazo removed this working code with a comment "Remove dead code around EXV_UNICODE_PATH" and no other reasoning, rendering the library unusable for Windows paths with characters outside Win-1252. This was done in commit 7933ff4. A puzzling change, really.