[tor-bugs] #10416 [Tor]: Tor won't start on Windows when path contains non-ascii characters

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#10416: Tor won't start on Windows when path contains non-ascii characters
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 Reporter:  iktsuarpok        |          Owner:
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor               |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.3.25
 Keywords:  windows, unicode  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                    |         Points:
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 When trying to start the TBB from the following path:

 C:\Users\kuncaŭščyna\Downloads\Tor Browser\

 got the following error:

 Vidalia detected that the Tor software exited unexpectedly.
 Please check the message log for recent warning or error messages.

 Here's the log:

 Dez 16 18:27:21.431 [Hinweis] Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65) running
 on Windows 7.
 Dez 16 18:27:21.431 [Hinweis] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
 Learn how to be safe at
 https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
 Dez 16 18:27:21.431 [Warnung] Unable to open configuration file
 "C:\Users\kuncauscyna\Downloads\Tor Browser\Data\Tor\torrc".
 Dez 16 18:27:21.431 [Fehler] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

 Diacritics were obviously "simplified" which created inexisting path.

 I know Windows is not recommened for anonymity. But some people use TBB on
 Win only for censorship circumvention. The easiest solution is simply to
 add a message to log like:

 Unable to open configuration file "C:\Users\kuncauscyna\Downloads\Tor
 Browser\Data\Tor\torrc". Please check that the path contains only ascii
 symbols.

 But much better would be to fix it to process correctly path in unicode.

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