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

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

On 14/09/2008 04:08, Fyodor wrote:
> Hi Jah.  Did you do this testing with Nmap 4.76 or 4.75?
Originally with 4.75, but I've now tried the same thing with 4.76
(r10166)  and got the same result.  However,

On 14/09/2008 03:55, David Fifield wrote:
> I wonder if it would work if it was run on a Japanese or Chinese edition
> of Windows. I get the impression that the encoding Windows uses for file
> names depends on the locale. If that's the case it's not such a big
> problem, as people with user names like that are more likely to use an
> operating system specific to their language.
I had this thought too, there must be other settings needed rather than
just installing support for East Asian languages.  And with that, I find
that changing "Language for non-Unicode programs" (Advanced tab of
Intl.cpl) to match the language used for the user name seems to solve
this problem entirely:
The NSIS installer runs from a directory under the Chinese user's home -
it wouldn't before.
The Zenmap shortcut is placed on the desktop as part of the installation
process - it didn't before.
Zenmap runs seemingly without issue (creates the .zenmap dir, runs fine,
can save and load scans etc.) - wouldn't start before.
Nmap can be run from the commandline in any directory whereas before it
wouldn't.

There's some info regarding this "System Locale" setting here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/drintl/faqs/locales.mspx#ENF

I think you might be correct to say that this is not going to be a
problem for users who have installed a Chinese/Japanese edition of windows.

Regards,

jah

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