2012/4/27 Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>:
> Il 27.04.2012 12:18, Heiko Hund ha scritto:
>> On Friday 27 April 2012 09:54:15 Samuli Seppänen wrote:
>>> Anyways, I cross-compiled latest "master" with this patch applied and
>>> "bin" and "lib" directories on top of an existing openvpn-2.3-alpha1
>>> install. The old "bin" directory was renamed to make sure none of it was
>>> used. I then renamed "openvpn.ovpn" to "ääliö.ovpn" and "ta.key" to
>>> "ääliö.key" using Windows Explorer. Then I updated the configuration
>>> file to point to these files using Notepad (and later Wordpad).
>> Notepad saves UTF-8 files with BOM, which is very uncommon. Maybe that was 
>> the
>> problem. I ran into that when I was testing my patch. You might want to try
>> using Notepad++ and save it as UTF-8 without BOM.
>>
>> HTH
>> Heiko
> Saved the configuration file to UTF-8 without BOM - after this I got no
> complaints from OpenVPN-GUI. Launching OpenVPN from the command prompt
> also worked... tls-auth was undefined in the config, and openvpn called
> like this:

if bom is a problem we should handle it properly in options.c, as we
cannot expect users to understand bom issues.

>
>> openvpn --config ääliö.ovpn --tls-auth ääliö.key 1
>
> Only minor issue was that the command prompt displayed funky characters
> instead of the proper ones:
>
> <http://users.utu.fi/sjsepp/cmd2.png>

Yes. this is OK.

Alon.

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