[gdb] cannot not open source file with Chinese/Unicode characters in path when debugging

[aeschli]

From @magicsong on March 29, 2017 14:22

• VSCode Version:1.10
• OS Version:ubuntu 16.04 lts

Steps to Reproduce:
I'm a chinese user, so maybe my issue is relative with language support problem.
1.debug a c++ project with cpptool
2.then VS Code reminds me cannot open some file like this:无法打开“PointTransformer.cpp”: 找不到文件(/home/magicsong/346226207346241243/Codes/DataTransform/GeoDataTransformer/PointTransformer.cpp)。In my computer, the file above is located in "/home/magicsong/文档/Codes/DataTransform/GeoDataTransformer/PointTransformer.cpp", does cpptool not support chinese? or something i miss when i debug?

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#23575

[pieandcakes]

@magicsong If you remove the Chinese characters in the path, does it work?

[magicsong]

@pieandcakes I still got this error when i change the path.I also change my OS language to English, and rebuild again, it still does not work.

[pieandcakes]

@magicsong So you get the file not found after you change the path? Can you post the updated error when you remove the Chinese characters from the path?

[magicsong]

Unable to open 'raise.c': File not found (/build/glibc-9tT8Do/glibc-2.23/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c). After i google, it seems that the debug is OK now because this new error is different from my first error. So it does not work when i have chinese characters in my file path.

[pieandcakes]

I've marked this as a bug so we can go investigate and fix the Chinese characters in path issue. Thank you for reporting it.

[sean-mcmanus]

What is the new error?

[pieandcakes]

@sean-mcmanus Its the first sentence in @magicsong's last post.

[sean-mcmanus]

But that sounds the same as the first error. Both errors are about not being able to open the file.

[pieandcakes]

The second error seems like the user is trying to step into library code and doesn't have the source files on their machine so the error is expected. The first is that the path is converting the Chinese characters into a series of numbers which is unexpected and a bug.