Re: Non-ASCII user names on Windows; internationalization fun

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

On 10/09/2008 21:29, David Fifield wrote:
> I decided to press my luck and created an account with the user name
> 本因坊秀策. (Those are Japanese kanji. I hope they don't get mangled by
> mail readers or the mailing list archiver.) With this account Zenmap
> gives an error message at startup saying it can't create the user
> configuration directory. The directory it's trying to create is
> C:\Documents and Settings\?????\.zenmap. That's not your mail reader,
> those are five literal question mark characters. That comes straight out
> of the HOME environment variable, and I don't know what to do about it.
> Python is perfectly capable of reading the home directory's file name:
> os.listdir(u"C:\\Documents and Settings").
>
> The Windows I'm trying this on is on a FAT32 partition. Does anyone know
> if using NTFS would have any change? If someone wants to try it, it's
> pretty easy. Install the East Asian language files (under Regional and
> Language Options in the Control Panel), create an account, and copy and
> paste something from Wikipedia in the user name field.
I tried this with Chinese on XP with NTFS.
I didn't have nmap installed on this fresh VM and couldn't even launch
the NSIS installer from a directory under the Chinese user's home, but
it installed fine for that user once I'd moved the installer.
Starting zenmap then resulted in the message you saw with kanji - so
filesystem seems to make no difference.

Regards,

jah





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