bug#25038: 25.1; Accent in Windows username prevents Emacs from loading
From:
Márton Marczell
Subject:
bug#25038: 25.1; Accent in Windows username prevents Emacs from loading customizations
Date:
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:58:02 +0100
Yes I can reproduce the error from cmd. Command line argument is not even needed. Simply launching emacs from the cmd prompt gives the error when the directory path does not have an accented letter in it, and succeeds when it does. The default directory for cmd is C:\Users\Márton, that's why I couldn't reproduce the error from cmd initially.
PWD is not defined anywhere. (getenv "PWD") gives back nil in both cases.
Running
set HOME=D:\a
runemacs
makes Emacs create a new .emacs.d folder in D:\a, whereas
set HOME=D:\á
runemacs
makes Emacs create a folder named D:\� which it is then unable to populate, failing with a different error ("Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, ~/abbrev_defs")