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milen-prg:
@Jungle,

This displays as strange symbols.

Jungle:
@milen-prg,
For me it looks the same in MC and Explorer. But at the moment I use Win10. Will check later on Win11

Mathias (Author):

--- Quote from: Jungle on March 20, 2026, 09:18:01 ---
--- Quote from: Mathias (Author) on March 19, 2026, 17:44:56 ---MC don't do any special processing.
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Then maybe it should ? Personally, I don't experience any problem, but this is not the first report. Since other programs are not affected, this is most probably indeed MC-related.

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I don't think so. There is nothing MC can do. ALL text in MC are UTF16. all APIs in Windows are UTF16. It should just work. No conversions are needed.
BUT there are lots of things in Windows that affect rendering of some apps. Like 3rd party theme things and combability settings or app that mess with scim settings (stuff for accessibility stuff)

Mathias (Author):
Packing filename with strange characters with zip is not good.  zip does not support UTF16. standard zip only support 7bit.,  But  modern zip will support UTF8..  and when unpacking they get converted to UTF16. but then conversion between different things are being done and if there are something specially strange with the filename. it might be lost..
I think 7z store names as UTF16

However. I can't replicate it.
Are you running any 3rd party Windows theme tool in windows ? or something else that hook it self deep into Windows that you know about ?
Something else that is special with your setup ?

In Windows 10/11. There is a new hidden settings.. Make sure it is not on. (maybe some other app have activated it, even if you have not done it maually)
In region settings dialog (the old one..) There is a "Administrative" page.
Clicking in "Change system locale.."
There is a checkbox that say

"Beta: Use Unicode UTf-8 worldwide language support"

Make sure this is NOT check.  This is a new Win10/11 thing that is buggy.. (They say that this will only affect Store apps. but some people are reporting issues in other old desktop apps)

milen-prg:
[SOLVED]

I experimented with the settings long time and I FIND IT! ;D

This is the change, which breaks the display:

Explorer Panel Settings > Display > Gridlines > Auto adjust text if it is too long

If I remove this option (I prefer to keep the text size, because of the eyes problem), the name do not displays properly, but if this is ON - as default - everything displays OK.
I admit the Chatgpt helped me in investigation.

But why this option breaks the displaying?!

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