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-I installed nb40 to directory with czech characters. -It ends with 'Error' message - 'Cannot start IDE'
it's a little bit more complicated. 1, I used czech characters in english locale and only 'Cannot start IDE' message appeared. 2, on czech locale I receive F:\netbeans\pěkňoučký ádrřěík\bin>nb.exe --jdkhome c:\jdk1.5.0_01 --userdir f:\netbeans\userdirs\testRunFromDirWithCze chChars Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the file specified at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method) at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:395) at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:531) at java.io.File.getCanonicalFile(File.java:555) at org.netbeans.Main.build_cp(Main.java:336) at org.netbeans.Main.execute(Main.java:100) at org.netbeans.Main.main(Main.java:39)
Running the IDE from a directory with a name including non-English characters is unsupported. Workaround exists -- install the IDE into a directory with English-only names. Not a regression, NB 3.6 doesn't work either (->P3). Nice test case though.
Ken, do netbeans start on chinese(japanese) windows when nb is installed in directory with chinese characters ?
A long time ago there was a bug or issue on this and it seemed decision was that not permitted to have ide installed in dir with multibyte chars; and I'm guessing this applies to any non ascii chars, as from this bug. I've not heard issues about it before from customers, but of course this can be raised as an issue to be fixed, since we can use non ascii or multibyte chars in other dirs that are used when one runs the ide. That is, assumption is that for any other case, directory can have both its name and file names in non ascii, depending of course on support of the OS for it. ken.frank@sun.com 11/09/2004
Many command line tools we rely on are likely to break when they come to pathnames with non-usascii chars
This is very close to issue 51136 which I closed as dup of issue 48902. I did not investigate 51136 further, but I believe it is either OS or JDK bug. If I start NB on 1.5.0-b64 with "System Locale; Encod. = cs_CZ (nb); Cp1250" then everything seems to be OK for me. If your locale is EN and you use Czech characters then you have problems.
David, this is different issue. Netbeans don't start if they are installed in non-ascii dir neither in czech locale nor english. You should read my second comment to this issue more carefully.
I see, I thought that you are talking about userdir instead of install dir. Sorry, ignore my comments.
If it is not supported, then this is WONTFIX. RELNOTE keyword still valid.
closed