Certain files containing Japanese characters in their names are not being recognized by the system. These files cannot be opened or previewed. A dialog box displays "link doesn't exist" along with the correct file name.
Vifm uses UTF-8 internally on Windows and thus converts file names to and from UTF-8. Sounds like converting back to UTF-16 (used by Windows) didn't produce original set of bytes.
Please provide sample file names which cause the issue to manifest.