diff --git a/components/files/openfile.cpp b/components/files/openfile.cpp
index 61a177b038..54b0b28058 100644
--- a/components/files/openfile.cpp
+++ b/components/files/openfile.cpp
@@ -3,11 +3,20 @@
 #include <cstring>
 #include <fstream>
 
+#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__WINDOWS__)
+#include <boost/locale.hpp>
+#endif
+
 namespace Files
 {
     std::unique_ptr<std::ifstream> openBinaryInputFileStream(const std::string& path)
     {
+#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__WINDOWS__)
+        std::wstring wpath = boost::locale::conv::utf_to_utf<wchar_t>(path);
+        auto stream = std::make_unique<std::ifstream>(wpath, std::ios::binary);
+#else
         auto stream = std::make_unique<std::ifstream>(path, std::ios::binary);
+#endif
         if (!stream->is_open())
             throw std::runtime_error("Failed to open '" + path + "' for reading: " + std::strerror(errno));
         stream->exceptions(std::ios::badbit);
diff --git a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
index 206d9aff0c..8b74fb788a 100644
--- a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
+++ b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ namespace VFS
             if (mPath.size () > 0 && mPath [prefix - 1] != '\\' && mPath [prefix - 1] != '/')
                 ++prefix;
 
-            for (directory_iterator i (mPath); i != end; ++i)
+            for (directory_iterator i (std::filesystem::u8path(mPath)); i != end; ++i)
             {
                 if(std::filesystem::is_directory (*i))
                     continue;
 
-                std::string proper = i->path ().string ();
+                auto proper = i->path ().u8string ();
 
-                FileSystemArchiveFile file(proper);
+                FileSystemArchiveFile file(std::string((char*)proper.c_str(), proper.size()));
 
                 std::string searchable;
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace VFS
 
                 const auto inserted = mIndex.insert(std::make_pair(searchable, file));
                 if (!inserted.second)
-                    Log(Debug::Warning) << "Warning: found duplicate file for '" << proper << "', please check your file system for two files with the same name in different cases.";
+                    Log(Debug::Warning) << "Warning: found duplicate file for '" << std::string((char*)proper.c_str(), proper.size()) << "', please check your file system for two files with the same name in different cases.";
                 else
                     out[inserted.first->first] = &inserted.first->second;
             }