From c5a0f64f19b6ec8c85dd06caef71d299e41c6db5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:43:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] App: fixes #7112: Addon manager does not work on windows with
 special characters in the username

---
 src/App/Metadata.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/App/Metadata.cpp b/src/App/Metadata.cpp
index 9ea5412be9..6a7cc05907 100644
--- a/src/App/Metadata.cpp
+++ b/src/App/Metadata.cpp
@@ -99,7 +99,11 @@ Metadata::Metadata(const fs::path& metadataFile)
     auto errHandler = std::make_unique<MetadataInternal::XMLErrorHandler>();
     _parser->setErrorHandler(errHandler.get());
 
+#if defined (FC_OS_WIN32)
+    _parser->parse(reinterpret_cast<const XMLCh*>(metadataFile.wstring().c_str()));
+#else
     _parser->parse(metadataFile.string().c_str());
+#endif
 
     auto doc = _parser->getDocument();
     _dom = doc->getDocumentElement();