# File/path names with special characters on Windows systems

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/file-path-names-with-special-characters-on-windows-systems/6070
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/file-path-names-with-special-characters-on-windows-systems/6070 "2020-12-16T10:07:03Z")
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### Author: ![todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/todoooo/32/2819_2.png) [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/file-path-names-with-special-characters-on-windows-systems/6070/12 "2021-09-17T09:18:18Z")

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Unfortunately the UTF8 support has not been merged into 5.9.1 because the code changes were deemed too extensive for a patch version upgrade. I don’t know when 5.10 is due for release.

> [@ParaView 5.9.1-RC2 available for download](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-rc2-available-for-download/7100/10):
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> For a patch version, we try to avoid including sweeping changes to many parts of the code. They’ll be in 5.10, though.

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