Bug 201972

Summary: [Windows] Amarok crashes on start if %USERPROFILE% (my home path) contains non-latin characters
Product: kde-windows Reporter: Saturn <saturn.dg>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: crash CC: casper.vandonderen, Ch.Ehrlicher, ps_ml
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Saturn 2009-07-30 08:47:44 UTC 
Version:           2.1 (using 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3), MS Visual Studio 2005 SP1)
Compiler:          cl.exe
OS:                Microsoft Windows (i686) release 5.1 (XP Professional)

After installing kde on windows amarok configuration located at 
C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\Application Data\.kde\share\apps\amarok\amarok.cnf
Администратор - user name written in russian (Administrator), default for Windows XP with this localization.

After start amarok crashes (it could not find a file).

Console output:
Family none
Could not open required defaults file: C:/Documents and Settings/╨Р╨┤╨╝╨╕╨╜╨╕╤Б╤В╤А╨░╤В╨╛╤А/Application Data/.kde/share/apps//amarok/my.cnf
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-07-30 09:02:37 UTC 
Could be a locale problem, make sure you have the same encoding everywhere. I strongly suggest UTF-8(16), ISO-8859-n is not exactly very modern. Could you change your system encoding and report back, please?
Comment 2 Saturn 2009-07-30 10:53:41 UTC 
Hmm.... And how it is possible - changing system encoding _on_Windows_? :) It use always CP866 for filenames (NTFS). Also? , as i know, on XP is available Unicode API for access to files.

I can be mistaken.

After all, i have created new account with only Latin symbols and now i enjoy music, but it is not convenient for all.
Comment 3 Casper van Donderen 2009-07-30 11:25:41 UTC 
This is a bug in KDE Windows. Reassigning
Comment 4 Lydia Pintscher 2009-07-30 11:29:20 UTC 
(Caspar tested it and it happened with other KDE apps as well.)
Comment 5 Christian Ehrlicher 2010-01-08 19:33:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 201987 ***