[L2Ork-dev] non-standard characters in path

[Iain Mott]

Dear developers,

I've been presenting Pd/Purrdata to an introductory sound design class 
and students have been installing the software on their mainly Windows 
machines. A common problem that I'm encountering is that many of the 
students have user names with non-standard characters such as "João" and 
"Márcia". While it's possible to change the user name at the login 
level, the path remains unchanged after re-boot/login and Pd/Purrdata 
fails to load objects and abstractions (abstraction at least and they 
appear in red in the patches). There is apparently a way to resolve the 
path problem at the system level by making changes to registry values 
(I'm not a regular Windows user), however I do not wish to make such 
changes on the machines of the students because there is a risk that I 
may damage the system if I make a mistake.

As a workaround I've been creating a new user name on each machine but 
as such, the users can't access there other docs.

Since other programs don't seem to have this problem, my question is: 
can non-standard characters such as á, à and ã be made permissible in 
paths for Purr Data?

Thanks very much,

Iain