Jira (PUP-4339) Non-US paths in environment variables gets garbled in Windows

[John Ericson (JIRA)]

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John Ericson created an issue   Puppet / PUP-4339 Non-US paths in environment variables gets garbled in Windows Issue Type: Epic Affects Versions: PUP 3.7.4 Assignee: Aaron Armstrong Attachments: bug_swedish_userprofile.pp, puppetrun.log, util.rb Components: PE, Windows Created: 2015/03/30 9:06 AM Environment: Windows 7 64 bit Swedish Windows 10 TP Build 10041 64 bit English Labels: utf8 windows Priority: Blocker Reporter: John Ericson I discovered a problem today when I ran one of my modules on a computer running Windows. The cause of the problem was non-US characters in the users home directory (aka userprofile). The non-US character in question was å, ä and ö. My only way of solving this was to rename the user account on the computer to a name with only English characters. I managed to reproduce the problem with a minimal manifests that I include in this ticket. The manifests works fine if my user account is c:\Users\John but if I change it to c:\Users\Jöhn it destroys the Swedish character and instead outputs C:\Users\JA›ƒ,ªA?hn This happens in an exec resource like this: # This caused problem on Tommys computer. exec { 'tomcat-configure-service': command => "powershell.exe Get-ChildItem Env:", _onlyif_ => 'powershell.exe exit 0', provider => windows, logoutput => true, #notify => $tomcat_service, tag => 'tomcat-configure-service', } To reproduce the error I run it like this on Windows in cmd.exe: set USERNAME=Jöhn set USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Jöhn M:\Virtual Machines\Puppet Windows development\synced_folder>puppet apply manifests\bug_swedish_userprofile.pp --test In the output you can see the garbled text. To also see it internally in Ruby I added logging to util.rb. Simply replace it in C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet Enterprise\puppet\lib\puppet with mine. This problem is a serious road block for running this in production so I would to see it prioritized. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.