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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: bug#25038: 25.1; Accent in Windows username prevents Emacs from loading customizations
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:58:02 +0100

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Yes I can reproduce the error from cmd. Command line argument is not even
needed. Simply launching emacs from the cmd prompt gives the error when the
directory path does not have an accented letter in it, and succeeds when it
does. The default directory for cmd is C:\Users\Márton, that's why I
couldn't reproduce the error from cmd initially.

PWD is not defined anywhere. (getenv "PWD") gives back nil in both cases.

Running

set HOME=D:\a
runemacs

makes Emacs create a new .emacs.d folder in D:\a, whereas

set HOME=D:\á
runemacs

makes Emacs create a folder named D:\� which it is then unable to populate,
failing with a different error ("Cannot open load file: No such file or
directory, ~/abbrev_defs")

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