From 6c6dd6878045199a7aa6abf8f1c7c7e5e782632a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RedBlackAka <140876408+RedBlackAka@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:32:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Windows: Fix game shortcut character corruption (#1745)

---
 src/citra_qt/citra_qt.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/citra_qt/citra_qt.cpp b/src/citra_qt/citra_qt.cpp
index aab00987b..a66bd3786 100644
--- a/src/citra_qt/citra_qt.cpp
+++ b/src/citra_qt/citra_qt.cpp
@@ -1918,7 +1918,9 @@ bool GMainWindow::CreateShortcutLink(const std::filesystem::path& shortcut_path,
         LOG_ERROR(Frontend, "Failed to get IPersistFile interface");
         return false;
     }
-    hres = persist_file->Save(std::filesystem::path{shortcut_path / (name + ".lnk")}.c_str(), TRUE);
+    hres = persist_file->Save(
+        std::filesystem::path{shortcut_path / (Common::UTF8ToUTF16W(name) + L".lnk")}.c_str(),
+        TRUE);
     if (FAILED(hres)) {
         LOG_ERROR(Frontend, "Failed to save shortcut");
         return false;