BinDiff should use Unicode APIs on Windows

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#4 opened on Sep 21, 2023 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: java
Domain: operating-systems, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Reproduce the failure on Windows using database paths containing Chinese characters, then trace the database-opening path that produces the reported temporary.database error. Done means BinDiff can diff the two databases successfully when the user profile or temporary path contains non-ASCII characters.

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Description

bug enhancement

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.saved two ida database.
2.Open one of the two database to diff the other database
3.alert message as "Error while diffing: failed opening database: 'unable to open database file', filename: 'C:\Users\���\AppData\Local\Temp\BinDiff\temporary.database' "

What is the expected behavior?
I wish that the Bindiff can support Chinese.

What went wrong?
I can't diff the two database.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Bindiff 7 beta. On Windows.
Any other comments?

186791621__33198687__191454

Ported from b/186791621

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