[GRASS-dev] r58200 (attempt to fix failure when user name contains non-ascii characters)

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Fri Nov 15 07:21:39 PST 2013


Glynn Clements wrote:

> > > What problem is it trying to fix?
> > 
> > it fixes issue on Windows when user name contains non-ascii charecters
> > (which is quite common on this platform).
> > 
> > > And how does it do that (if it does actually work)?
> > 
> > I have created on my Windows machine such user and this patch was
> > necessary otherwise GRASS start script simply fails.
> 
> How/why does it fail? And how does this change fix that?

In the absence of any useful information, r58200 has been reverted for
lib/init/grass.py (the change to lib/python/script/core.py remains).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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