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

Wed Dec 18 15:24:45 UTC 2013

#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
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  windows, unicode
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Comment (by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:10 cypherpunks]:
 > No problem with Vidalia or Torlauncher, they passes agruments in proper
 way, but Tor can handle only non unicode argv that OS converted using
 configured code-page. Proper way is to drop ~~windows~~ legacy code that
 depends code-page and to use unicode windows specific stuff and funcs.

 Hm. If we can do this by just handling unicode command-line arguments
 (s/main/wmain/), this won't be hard.  If we need to change every place
 that we touch the file system or manipulate a path, that will be a bit
 harder.

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