Subject: #16667 Accented home dir stops ELPA package

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:13:18 -0400

close 16667 24.5
quit

> It's not easy to do, because this is the user's home directory, so
> you need to have a user with a non-ASCII character in her name.  And
> the C:/Users directory is not generally writable, or at least it
> isn't supposed to be.

It's not that hard, just make a directory with non-ASCII name, and set
HOME= to it.

I confirmed it happens in 24.3, and works in 24.5 (24.4 crashed on
startup with non-ASCII HOME).

Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
Making version-control local to lmc-autoloads.el while let-bound!
Generating autoloads for lmc.el...done
Saving file c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc-autoloads.el...
Wrote c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc-autoloads.el
(No changes need to be saved)
(No files need saving)
Checking c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4...
[2 times]
Compiling c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc-pkg.el...done
Wrote c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc-pkg.elc
Checking c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4...
Compiling c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc.el...done
Wrote c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4/lmc.elc
Checking c:/Users/npostavs/tmp/Propriétaire.AlienwareCedric/.emacs.d/elpa/lmc-1.4...
Done (Total of 2 files compiled, 1 skipped)