Yes, I know.��

I just described some workaround to find the fix.

So my suggestions are:

- create user with english name and run Pharo under it.

- find the place where FilePathEncoder is called and modify encoding to another one: try CP1251 instead of UTF8 or otherwise.��

- try to read your Russian folder path with fix (and without fix to ensure reproducible case)

- with found solution propose fix for Pharo or at least describe the found problem here.��

2017-11-10 12:04 GMT+01:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:

Denis,

His problem is much more fundamental: his Pharo image does not start up (correctly) because some of its paths (his directory/folder names) where Pharo is located uses Cyrillic characters. He has no chance to fix this. I think this is a problem with FileSystem path decoding on Windows. First we needed a way to reproduce this exactly, as always.

Sven

> On 10 Nov 2017, at 11:44, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Sorry for the late response. I skipped your mail somehow.
>
> You need to try CP1251 converter. In past I used CP1251TextConverter from http://www.squeaksource.com/RussianSupport.html.
> But now there is very nice ZnCharacterEncoder hierarchy which provides out of the box main encodings. To get cp1251 encoder evaluate:
> 'cp1251' asZnCharacterEncoder
> I not tried to use it in practice. So I could not give you examples for this. But I hope it gives you directions to look at.
>
> And question for others: should not we deprecate old TextConverter's and move to zn encoders completely?
>
> 2017-11-01 7:15 GMT+01:00 �� <vikenti.potapov@gmail.com>:
>
> Good day!
> Now i download fresh latest pharo archive and unzipped it to C:\Pharo 6.1.
> The error still exists.
> Debugging shows that error comes with reading from environment varaible:
> ...
> ByteString(String)�� convertFromWithConverter:
> FilePathEncoder class�� decode:
> WindowsResolver(platformResolver) resolveString:
> WindowsResolver(platformResolver) directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or:
> ...
>
> it tries to read 'USERPROFILE', get envValue 'C:\Users\��' and can't parse cyrillic characters in this path.
>
> Please, tell me how to fix it by myself.
>
> Best regards, Vikenti.
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