From d0fdcf2848f9196404f9a8e7e4f16a3cb931e4a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Emmas <johne53@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:38:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use glib to open our 'announcements' file, rather than
 opening directly with ofstream

(on Windows, std::ofstream doesn't support UTF8)
---
 gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc  | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
index f2d0132b48..ce95aec7e6 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
@@ -808,13 +808,20 @@ ARDOUR_UI::check_announcements ()
 	_annc_filename.append (VERSIONSTRING);
 
 	std::string path = Glib::build_filename (user_config_directory(), _annc_filename);
-	std::ifstream announce_file (path.c_str());
-	if ( announce_file.fail() )
-		_announce_string = "";
-	else {
-		std::stringstream oss;
-		oss << announce_file.rdbuf();
-		_announce_string = oss.str();
+	FILE* fin = g_fopen (path.c_str(), "rb");
+
+	if (fin) {
+		std::ifstream announce_file (fin);
+
+		if ( announce_file.fail() )
+			_announce_string = "";
+		else {
+			std::stringstream oss;
+			oss << announce_file.rdbuf();
+			_announce_string = oss.str();
+		}
+
+		fclose (fin);
 	}
 
 	pingback (VERSIONSTRING, path);
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
index 3c46a0c8ff..10c798e104 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 
 #include <curl/curl.h>
 
+#include <glib/gstdio.h>
 #include <glibmm/miscutils.h>
 
 #include "pbd/compose.h"
@@ -221,11 +222,19 @@ _pingback (void *arg)
 			
 			//write announcements to local file, even if the
 			//announcement is empty
-				
-			std::ofstream annc_file (cm->announce_path.c_str());
-			
-			if (annc_file) {
-				annc_file << return_str;
+
+			FILE* fout = g_fopen (cm->announce_path.c_str(), "wb");
+
+			if (fout) {
+				{
+					std::ofstream annc_file (fout);
+
+					if (annc_file) {
+						annc_file << return_str;
+					}
+				}
+
+				fclose (fout);
 			}
 		}
 	} else {