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In Exiv 0.27.6 there was an overload of ImageFactory::open taking std::wstring and it's gone in 0.28.0 #2795

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Turn out @piponazo removed this working code with a comment "Remove dead code around EXV_UNICODE_PATH" and no other reasoning, rendering the library unusable for Windows paths with characters outside Win-1252. This was done in commit 7933ff4. A puzzling change, really.

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