<p>(<a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1445#issuecomment-313235665">from #1445</a>)</p>
<p>On Windows (8.1 here), Geany has problems working with files whose full path, when encoded in UTF-8, takes up 260 or more bytes. Such a path is possible if it contains non-ASCII characters.</p>
<p>In particular:</p>
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<li>
<p>Geany silently refuses to open more than one such file, instead jumping to the first one, as if they were identical.</p>
</li>
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<p>When such a file appears in the goto-symbol pop-up menu, its name is not shown.</p>
</li>
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<p>When it is selected from such a pop-up, Geany correctly navigates to the file, but a message is printed to the console (if running with <code>--verbose</code>):</p>
<pre><code>Geany: utils_tidy_path: assertion 'g_path_is_absolute(filename)' failed
</code></pre>
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