diff --git a/Source/Additions/GSXML.m b/Source/Additions/GSXML.m
index 9fe69ea8f..be749ab60 100644
--- a/Source/Additions/GSXML.m
+++ b/Source/Additions/GSXML.m
@@ -2576,7 +2576,20 @@ loadEntityFunction(const unsigned char *url, const unsigned char *eid,
 
   if ([file length] > 0)
     {
-      ret = xmlNewInputFromFile(ctx, [file fileSystemRepresentation]);
+      const char	*path;
+
+#if	defined(__MINGW32__)
+      /*
+       * The xmlNewInputFromFile() function requires an eight bit string
+       * but on a modern windows filesystem the file name could be unicode
+       * which can't be represented as a cString ... and may cause an
+       * exception ... nothing we can do about it really.
+       */
+      path = [file cString];
+#else
+      path = [file fileSystemRepresentation];
+#endif
+      ret = xmlNewInputFromFile(ctx, path);
     }
   else
     {
diff --git a/Source/NSProcessInfo.m b/Source/NSProcessInfo.m
index 544e6c393..6a9dcc136 100644
--- a/Source/NSProcessInfo.m
+++ b/Source/NSProcessInfo.m
@@ -1108,7 +1108,11 @@ static BOOL	debugTemporarilyDisabled = NO;
   extern int	_NSLogDescriptor;
   int		desc;
 
+#if	defined(__MINGW32__)
+  desc = _wopen([path fileSystemRepresentation], O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0644);
+#else
   desc = open([path fileSystemRepresentation], O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0644);
+#endif
   if (desc >= 0)
     {
       if (_NSLogDescriptor >= 0 && _NSLogDescriptor != 2)