Is it specifically a leading '$' - I had a vague recollection that character has a special meaning as a "special hidden or administrative" file name on Windows particularly associated with CIFS. E.G. I think if you share the root of your primary hard-drive it is listed as $C .
In the particular case quoted it could also be a *nix environment variable and if say Samba was involved the example of "/users/$username/.config" sounds like a Bash script trying to write to a NTFS drive where $username is a variable that actually represents a users name such as "alice" or "bob". On Windo$e Vista and later (I think) the users' home directories are typically at C:\users\alice\; C:\users\bob\ etc. etc. Oh, and non ASCII usernames are an issue currently within Mudlet as we do not pass anything other than Latin1 characters as TLuaInterpreter::getMudletHomeDir(...) uses lua_pushstring( L, erg.toLatin1().data() ); which breaks on anything not ASCII - changing that to: lua_pushstring( L, erg.toUTf8().data() ); may offer a fix in that the lua code will then receive the Utf-8 encoded characters correctly but whether that will be correctly interpreted by the 'Doze file i/o commands is not so clear. Note that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1322753 "getMudletHomeDir() has problems with nonstandard characters in path" refers to this issue. Reply by Email Stephen On 20/03/17 14:04, Chris Leacy wrote: > Public bug reported: > > I was aware of this previously: When the package manager unzips, if > there's a $ present in the system username the unzip/package install > fails. It appears it's not just the presence of a $, it's many special > characters. > > You group-say 'It's going to be the path /users/username/.config' > You group-say 'if 'username' has something funky in it that might cause > problems' > You group-say 'Does your windows username have any special characters in it?' > You group-say 'in particular a dollar sign?' > Sobes group-says 'I think that Root profile is named in Russian' > Sobes tells you 'yea, username is in win1251 codepage' > > ** Affects: mudlet > Importance: Undecided > Status: New > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mudlet Makers, which is subscribed to Mudlet. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674350 Title: Profiles won't install if special characters Status in Mudlet: New Bug description: I was aware of this previously: When the package manager unzips, if there's a $ present in the system username the unzip/package install fails. It appears it's not just the presence of a $, it's many special characters. You group-say 'It's going to be the path /users/username/.config' You group-say 'if 'username' has something funky in it that might cause problems' You group-say 'Does your windows username have any special characters in it?' You group-say 'in particular a dollar sign?' Sobes group-says 'I think that Root profile is named in Russian' Sobes tells you 'yea, username is in win1251 codepage' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1674350/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
