darktable-cli cannot handle non-western characters properly as output file name

Software darktable
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Hi,
I found that darktable-cli cannot handle non-western characters properly as output file name in Windows.

For example:

If I use the command below which does not contain non-western characters, it makes proper output file.
“C:\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable-cli.exe” “C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures\test.tif” “C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures\test_edited.tif”

However if I use command like below which contains non-western characters…

“C:\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable-cli.exe” “C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures\1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_tmp.tif” “C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures\1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_edited.tif”

It makes output file in currect directory like below which name will have the separator in the path name omitted…

CUsersyohnishiPictures1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_edited.tif

My environment is Windows11 25H2 Japanese version + darktable 5.4.1

Any suggestion?

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I’m not a developer but I’d suggest to file an issue on github:

In your particular example you can cd into your directory C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures\ :

cd C:\Users\yohnishi\Pictures

before launching the program:

"C:\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable-cli.exe" "1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_tmp.tif” "1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_edited.tif"

Perhaps it works in this way, but of course it’s not ideal since in general you might want to use a different directory.

Another thing I can suggest is to try, as a workaround, to escape all the backslashes, like this.

"C:\\Users\\yohnishi\\Pictures\\1991_06尾瀬ヶ原4_櫛形1_0016s_tmp.tif"

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Thank you for your suggestion. I tried it and it works.

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