Re: _wstat on Windows (actually stat stuff in general)

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

> But which is more likely to happen - user having a filename with foreign
> characters, or user having a symlink (which on Windows can only be created
> by administrators)...
You asked the question slightly incorrectly: which is more likely to 
happen: a user have a file on their filesystem that their system codepage 
cannot support or having a symlink. I'd say the latter is more frequent 
because every single home directory of every user has a bunch of them, 
whereas if a filesystem has funny characters in its file names there's a 
much greater chance the system generated them and can therefore read them. 
Plus I am fairly sure (but not 100%) that MBCS can represent all of the 
characters UTF-16 can (which is what the _wstat function uses).

Kean