fman fails to start on Windows when user profile folder name contains non-latin characters
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windows
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 275
- Forks
- 16
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Description
When Windows user profile folder name contains non-latin characters (in my case, Cyrillic), application launch fails with the following message:
Renaming user profile directory to all-latin characters resolved the problem.
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Research direction
Reproduce the launch failure on Windows with a user profile folder containing Cyrillic or other non-Latin characters, then compare it with an all-Latin profile path. Trace startup handling of the profile path and verify that the application launches successfully without requiring the directory to be renamed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100