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ipfs init command not working #7717
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We should fix the path encoding. As a workaround you can set the |
@SunkPlane29 I'm having trouble reproducing this on my machine
Could you give a more precise step by step reproduction of the issue? Does it occur if you set |
@aschmahmann My windows user has a special character (´). I think to reproduce the error you could set |
@SunkPlane29 trying it locally on Windows 10 still worked (below is my powershell output)
If you are able to answer some of my questions above that would be helpful in diagnosing what's going on. Additionally, if you could print out what your IPFS_PATH is when getting the error that may be helpful too. |
@djdv have you recently run into any issues like this in go-ipfs? |
This may have something to do with the locale setting on the machine, although I'm not familiar with how windows handles the character sets for various languages. The fact that |
@aschmahmann I think @jacobheun is right here. The mojibake is usually an indicator of the text encoding being misinterpreted at some layer. Go itself tends to handle this well by default though. I believe it tries to use utf8 encoding everywhere it can unless explicitly told otherwise. So it's kind of odd to see this. @SunkPlane29 MOST IMPORTANT |
@SunkPlane29 what is your system locality? i.e. can you run My machine gives:
Since the |
Version info:
go-ipfs version: 0.6.0
Repo version: 10
System version: amd64/windows
Golang version: go1.14.4
Description:
After running the command to initialize the daemon to later configure to use the web plugin I got this error:
Error: mkdir C:\Users\Andr├®\.ipfs: O sistema não pode encontrar o caminho especificado.
(the last translates to: "The system cannot find o specified path").I believe what caused this error was my user folder having a non-ASCII character(André). I've already tried to change the folder's name once, but it didn't work(windows 10 hehe). To reproduce the error one could probably just create a windows user with a non-ASCII character.
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