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25.1; Accent in Windows username prevents Emacs from loading customizations

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From: Márton Marczell <dalokmarcinak <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25038: 25.1; Accent in Windows username prevents Emacs from
 loading customizations
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:18:10 +0100

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In both cases they both display "Márton".

2016-11-26 20:19 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> > From: <dalokmarcinak <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:33:29 +0100
> >
> > If I start Emacs by opening (double-clicking) a file that has its
> extension associated
> > with Emacs, my user directory is not found, my .emacs is not run
> > etc. This does not happen if I start emacs from the command-line or by
> > double-clicking the executable, this way my user directory is correctly
> found.
> >
> > Here is the error message:
> >
> > Warning (initialization): Unable to create `user-emacs-directory'
> (~/.emacs.d/).
> > Any data that would normally be written there may be lost!
> > If you never want to see this message again,
> > customize the variable `user-emacs-directory-warning'.
> > Error (initialization): User M rton has no home directory
> > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘nil’:
> > File error: Opening directory, No such file or directory,
> c:/Users/M\341rton/AppData/Roaming
> > To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
> > cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
> > the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace.
>
> What do these display:
>
>   M-: (user-login-name) RET
>   M-: (user-real-login-name) RET
>
> Please try this both in the session started by clicking a file
> associated with Emacs and in a session started from the command-line.
>
> Thanks.
>

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