Error load script with non-english dir name

[kesdoputr]

mpv version and platform

mpv 0.27.0 x64 from https://mpv.srsfckn.biz/
windows7 SP1 x64

Reproduction steps

If mpv is located in a directory and the name is not english,i test in chinese japanese and korean dir name.
mpv can play file but lua script load error and show no such file or dir.

Log file

It's a sample when i use chinese dir name.
http://i.imgur.com/5L2a6Tp.png

I don't know if it is a bug or not,thanks for watching.

[Geograph-us]

I have the same bug in mpv 0.29.0-107

Windows 10 x64 - cyrillic-path to folder "portable_config".
LUA-scripts can't load but JS-scripts load successful.

I think the LUA-library which used in MPV can't work correctly with Windows path (in ANSI encoding) and tries to work with UTF-8 path.

[Geograph-us]

Temporary solution - loading scripts manually from mpv.conf (file must be in ANSI encoding):

load-scripts=no
script=C:\Плееры\MPV\portable_config\scripts\mines.lua
script=C:\Плееры\MPV\portable_config\scripts\youtube-quality.lua

[zc62]

This is very OS specific. In Linux, even I use convmv to rename a lua script to other non-UTF-8 encodings, the lua script still loads. It depends on the Windows open file API the upstream lua uses.

Don't know if mpv could translate the path string so that lua will accept it. It is possible that the lua library does not use a Windows open file API that supports UTF-8 path at all. In this case, even if mpv could translate the path, open file may still fail. And there are several different lua implementations that one can choose to build mpv with. One may work and another may not.

The best solution for now might be, just do not put mpv in a non-English directory. Something like C:\mpv\ should work just fine. If you insist on organizing portable programs in a non-English directory, probably it's time to change your habit.

[garoto]

Computers should be operated in an ASCII mode mindset when naming files and dirs that you have control of, regardless where you are in the world or what your native language is. Saying this as someone whose native language is full of çáéúõ and useless shit like that.

Surely this approach to all things computing always seemed like the less painful one in my experience.

[Dudemanguy]

I think this pretty much just OS-dependent. I have no knowledge of what windows does here, but I don't think trying trying to figure out some kind of workaround/hack for this is worth it.

Edit: Actually wm4 supposedly did it (c258478).