Skip to content

[Bug report]: Cannot create a profile on Windows when the user account name contains Unicode characters #2771

@rajivshah3

Description

@rajivshah3

Platform

Desktop

Version

1.4.1

Description

On Windows, Firefly fails to create a profile (error message is STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION) when the user account name contains Unicode characters (accented Latin characters, Chinese characters, and other special characters). This is due to RocksDB needing to be built with UTF-8 support.

Expected behaviour

Profile created successfully

Actual behaviour

Profile cannot be created

Can the issue reliably be reproduced?

Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Create a user account with Unicode characters in the username
  2. Attempt to create a profile in Firefly

Operating System

Windows

Diagnostics

No response

Developer Profile

No

Profile Type

Software (Stronghold)

Staking

No response

Crash Status

Non-responsive

Error Messages

No response

Error Logs

No response

Duplicate declaration

  • I have searched the issues tracker this issue and there is none

Code of Conduct

  • I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

bug reportSomething isn't working as intendedos:windowsAffects Windows platformplatform:desktopDesktop applicationpriority:2Priority level 2

Type

No type

Projects

No projects

Milestone

No milestone

Relationships

None yet

Development

No branches or pull requests

Issue actions