I'm not sure we have a workaround for this at the current time. I know in
3.5.0 we have made some improvements in puppet resource package. You might
give the RC a try.

If that doesn't work, please file an issue on this.

As a current workaround for using the windows package resource, have you
looked at chocolatey package resource?


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to install Skype's MSI using puppet.
> The name of the  package returned by 'puppet resource package' is "SkypeT
> 6.14".
> The correct one would be "Skype(tm) 6.14".
>
> However, puppet fails to handle both:
> If specified with the trademark sign, I get an "invalid byte sequence in
> US-ASCII" error.
> If specified following the return value if the puppet resource, it also
> tries to install it again (as it does not match the windows package name).
>
> It seems that puppet has a general problem with utf-8 characters or other
> special signs like umlauts [1],[2] which had not been fixed yet.
> But I wasn't able to find a workaround/solution for this kind of problem.
>
> Software in use:
> Puppet Client: v3.4.3 on Windows 7 Professional (German language)
> Puppet Master: v3.4.3 on Debian 7
>
> Anyone has an idea?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/49ovbwcC7vs
> [2] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1225
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