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On 27/04/12 14:15, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 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.

Just so that I understand this more properly.  The reason this is
okay, is that because cmd.exe is not UTF-8 capable when displaying the
log data?


kind regards,

David Sommerseth
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