Adding utf-8 as a supported string encoding when dumping about vdf HOT 2 CLOSED

Hello @sa3dany, you are saying that if I encoded a non-ascii named shortcut.vdf steam won't like it? Only wants WIDECHARS ?

I see that the dump func encodes in ascii, while the load decodes in utf-8. Have you tried simply changing the lines below from ascii to utf-8?

I expect that will work, although it will make the code for BIN_WIDESTRING unreachable.

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Hi @rossengeorgiev, thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Decoding works correctly. The issue is when a string contains a non-ASCII character (for example, the ™ symbol) the value.encode('ascii') call will fail and then it will be encoded using utf-16 (which Steam parses incorrectly):

The change I did in my fork is that I added a new Boolean parameter called utf8 that allows encoding using utf-8 when ASCII fails.

Please let me if this makes sense. Thank you.

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