[tor-bugs] #10416 [Core Tor/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:  ahf
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.4.2.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.2.3.25
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-client, windows, unicode,        |  Actual Points:
  win32, tbb-needs, 042-should                   |
Parent ID:  #25729                               |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by gk):

 We had another user coming to us via IRC and we spent hours figuring the
 issue out (part of that was my fault asking not earlier about non-ascii
 characters in the path). Could we raise the prio of this bug? This error
 is highly confusing and a real show-stopper for probably quite some amount
 of users. In particular as no other application seems to hit it.

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