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Is there a question mark (or marks) in the filename? Salamander renders unicode characters as "?".

... was always installed by default as my file manager. Even the parallel presence of Total Commander never made it my main one; although it supported Unicode and so on, it just couldn't become the main one and never did ;) Version 4.0 from 2019 suits me in every way, except for the lack of Unicode ...

Awesome! I am looking forward to the new versions. Keep the good work coming.

I have to praise the Mole (Krtek) for his effort and what he has done so far. Even the website looks nice. (though I do not like these "infinite scrolling" type. I also have to praise 0xeb and all the guys who put in the effort to keep Salamander alive.

Thank you Guys

SelfMan / ADMIN / Moderator ...

More like an Unicode issue. Did you try to rename the file with plain ascii?

I have to praise the Mole (Krtek) for his effort and what he has done so far. Even the website looks nice. (though I do not like these "infinite scrolling" type. I also have to praise 0xeb and all the guys who put in the effort to keep Salamander alive.

Thank you Guys

SelfMan / ADMIN / Moderator

I really like the effort put into RedSalamander . If this project is a tribute to the original Salamander, it's nice to see it's following the same path from the beginning.

https://images.krtkovo.eu/ss152.png

It's like a rebirth just 30 years later, same idea, different technologies used at the ...

Thanks @liquidator
your comment make sense.
I've got a compact settings in preferences but clearly not compact enough when activating, it will be fix :)
font are not the same because I'm displaying everything in DirectX with modern renderer. But perhaps I need a setting to let you bring your ...

Thank you for the feedback @liquidator

differences seems not obvious for me
https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander/blob/main/docs/res/salamander-vs-red.png?raw=true
But yes this is a new product and there is a lot of other differences
If you want to spend sometime to explain what you ...

Thank you for the feedback @liquidator

differences seems not obvious for me
https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander/blob/main/docs/res/salamander-vs-red.png?raw=true
But yes this is a new product and there is a lot of other differences
If you want to spend sometime to explain what you ...

try RedSalamander :D

https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander

or just
winget install RedSalamanders.RedSalamander

still not finale but progressing well with a lot of surprise for the new version cooking


Visually, Red Salamander bears no resemblance to the original product; it is ...

try RedSalamander

https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander

or just still not finale but progressing well with a lot of surprise for the new version cooking

Georgd wrote: 11 Aug 2026, 12:38 To my understanding, several forks (see https://github.com/OpenSalamander/salamander/forks) have working Unicode support, e.g. Sally or Samandarin

Sally = crash

Samandarin = work good

To my understanding, several forks (see https://github.com/OpenSalamander/salamander/forks) have working Unicode support, e.g. Sally or Samandarin

... somewhere right around there. 259 is OK. Didn't have a 260 on hand... 261 fails.)


There could be other reasons too.
Like an "illegal" (perhaps unicode ?) [to Windows] character in a filename, in such cases will cause a no-action result in Salamander.


Maybe ? some of these newer Salamanders can ...