[L2Ork-dev] non-standard characters in path

Jonathan Wilkes jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 11:02:08 EST 2019


Just to be clear-- we already have a special code path hooked in for
Windows to handle filename issues like these. So if you are using
Purr Data version 2.10.0 this problem shouldn't be happening.

-Jonathan

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:33 AM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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