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		solstice on Jan 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Par2cmdline is a PAR 2.0 compatible file verificat... I almost did but I tried something else and found the likely reason: the file name contained an "ä". Par2deep also fails when there's a CJK character in the filename. After removing these non-ascii characters it works. But this bug is going to cause problems for many people. Edit: filed a bug report

brnt on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

The joys of pre-UTF8 software :) You're right to point it out, however, the speed at which par2cmdline accepts PRs (~0/yr), consider it unfixable. I'm looking into https://github.com/akalin/gopar and this may solve this.

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