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

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Wed Oct 31 02:34:52 UTC 2018


#10416: Tor won't start on Windows when path contains non-ascii characters
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 Reporter:  iktsuarpok                           |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.2.3.25
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-client, windows, unicode, win32  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #25729                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 See #25729: this bug only happens when the torrc is encoded in a different
 encoding to the default system encoding.

 We need a proposal for transitioning from Windows-codepage encoded torrcs
 to UTF-8 encoded torrcs.

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