erlang os:cmd() command with UTF8 binary - unicode

Question

I'm trying to get an Erlang function to execute a bash command containing unicode characters. For example, I want to execute the equivalent of:
touch /home/jani/ჟანიweł
I put that command in variable D, for example:
io:fwrite("~ts", [list_to_binary(D)]).
touch /home/jani/ჟანიwełok
but after I execute:
os:cmd(D)
I get file called á??á??á??á??weÅ?. How can I fix it?
os:cmd(binary_to_list(unicode:characters_to_binary("touch /home/jani/编程"))).
Executing this command creates a file named ��, while executing the equivalent touch command directly in a terminal creates the file with the correct name.

Answer 1

Its because Erlang reads your source files like latin1 by default, but on newer versions of erlang you can set your files to use unicode.
%% coding: utf-8
-module(test).
-compile(export_all).
test() ->
COMMAND = "touch ჟანიweł",
os:cmd(COMMAND).
and then compiling and executing the module works fine
rorra-air:~ > erl
Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.4] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]
Eshell V6.4 (abort with ^G)
1> c(test).
{ok,test}
2> test:test().
[]
and it created the file on my filesystem
rorra-air:~ > ls -lta
total 144
-rw-r--r-- 1 rorra staff 0 Jun 9 15:18 ჟანიweł