[L2Ork-dev] non-standard characters in path

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:21 AM Iain Mott <mott at escuta.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

Iain,

Can you post a very simple example patch (e.g., one or two objects) that
shows this problem?

https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues

There's a special code-path specifically for Windows to address this problem
so I'm unsure why it's not working on your users' machines.

-Jonathan

>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Iain
>
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