Foreign characters in filenames

[SJM]

I am using an avisynth script with DirectShow. The avi file name in the script contains foreign characters (value>128) and Avisynth does not read the filename correctly. I read the related thread Foreign Language characters in filenames, but it is unclear if there was ever a resolution to the problem. Is there a fix?
Thank you for your help.

[Guest]

Why did you make the AVI file with foreign characters?

[thewebchat]

AviSynth does not support Unicode. Use US-ASCII like the rest of the world, thanks.

[Midzuki]

FWIW, one-byte characters whose values are greater than 0128
are not "foreign language", they are part of the ISO-8859-1 /
/ Windows-1252 character sets. Also, not the same as UTF-8 and binary Unicode.
I have Avisynth 2.5.8, and DirectShowSource has happily loaded a file named "zzzïntrô.m2v". :)

[SJM]

Thank you, I fixed it. I had to set the encoding when creating the avi scipt file.