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-rw-r--r--erts/preloaded/src/init.erl5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl b/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl
index 87003d096b..ab8464956c 100644
--- a/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl
+++ b/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl
@@ -465,7 +465,10 @@ make_permanent(Boot,Config,Flags0,State) ->
set_flag(_Flag,false,Flags) ->
{ok,Flags};
set_flag(Flag,Value,Flags) when is_list(Value) ->
- case catch list_to_binary(Value) of
+ %% The flag here can be -boot or -config, which means the value is
+ %% a file name! Thus the file name encoding is used when coverting.
+ Encoding = file:native_name_encoding(),
+ case catch unicode:characters_to_binary(Value,Encoding,Encoding) of
{'EXIT',_} ->
{error,badarg};
AValue ->