Windows version 1.8.8-6 can't open files with the "Gamma" Y in the file name

sn2006gy

sn2006gy

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I took some exposures in NINA and it saved the files with yCas using the character for gamma and PixInsight fails to open them if it's in the path or the filename. Renaming the files they opened fine.

ycass.jpg
 
This is a limitation of the CFITSIO library on Windows (lack of Unicode support). This problem does not happen on Linux and macOS.

I'll see if this can be avoided in our FITS support module, but I won't modify CFITSIO's source code so I don't guarantee anything.

At any rate, using characters outside the Latin-1 Unicode block (or ISO/IEC 8859-1) in file or directory names to store raw data is calling for interoperability problems. I don't think this is good practice in an image acquisition application.
 
I just filed a bug with CFITSIO. It should work as it does under macOS and Linux. Funny filing a bug via email but we'll see what they say!
 
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