Vagrant has problems with non ASCII characters in home path (on windows)

[joaoportela]

When deploying my first vagrant box on my windows machine I encountered an error related to the vagrant.d directory:

Vagrant failed to initialize at a very early stage:

The home directory you specified is not accessible. The home
directory that Vagrant uses must be both readable and writable.

You specified: C:/Users/Joao Portela/.vagrant.d

Since my home directory is actually João Portela and not Joao Portela the problem became clear. As a first attempt, I assumed that setting VAGRANT_HOME explicitly (VAGRANT_HOME=C:/Users/João Portela/.vagrant.d) would fix the issue, but the exact same error message still appeared.

As a work around we can change VAGRANT_HOME to something else that doesn't have non-ascii characters - I changed to VAGRANT_HOME=C:\.vagrant.d

[fgrehm]

Closing as duplicate of GH-2113

[joaoportela]

I looked for it but was unable to find it. What is the normal procedure now? Since it's closed I assume nothing else needs to be done here. Correct?

[fgrehm]

Yeah, just keep an eye on that other issue :)

[lucasmezencio]

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