Edit: Looks like no unicode support for Houdini on Windows -
reference post [www.sidefx.com]

Hey all, having some issues reading in a file of the following path (windows machine) -

“C:/Users/clayton.krause/Desktop/pack_folder/_output/_part_pool/FC203-B03_3D__cfg__預設.obj”

Changing the name of the file to “abc.obj” fixes the issue, but it's important that the name of the obj stays the same (with the non-ascii symbols). I've tried using expressions with an escaped ascii string representing the file, then decoding it, but that didn't work.

Any suggestions on how to work with unicode filenames with Houdini in this context?

Thank you,
Clayton