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[Stephen Lyons <slysven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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
>

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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'

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