diff --git a/src/common/utf8fn.cpp b/src/common/utf8fn.cpp
index 9c2f4140..c3a52985 100644
--- a/src/common/utf8fn.cpp
+++ b/src/common/utf8fn.cpp
@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@ using namespace std;
 
 string compute_utf8fn(const RclConfig *config, const string& ifn, bool simple)
 {
+    string lfn(simple ? path_getsimple(ifn) : ifn);
 #ifdef _WIN32
     // On windows file names are read as UTF16 wchar_t and converted to UTF-8
     // while scanning directories
-    return ifn;
+    return lfn;
 #else
     string charset = config->getDefCharset(true);
     string utf8fn; 
     int ercnt;
-    string lfn(simple ? path_getsimple(ifn) : ifn);
     if (!transcode(lfn, utf8fn, charset, "UTF-8", &ercnt)) {
 	LOGERR("compute_utf8fn: fn transcode failure from ["  << charset <<
                "] to UTF-8 for: [" << lfn << "]\n");