Issue 86896

Summary: User name containing special characters prevents starting AOO
Product: General Reporter: kajtek <kajdas>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 CC: davian818, elish, issues, kkonion
Version: OOo 2.3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows, all   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.0-dev
Developer Difficulty: ---
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c with apostrophe in user name none

Description kajtek 2008-03-11 02:43:12 UTC 
User name containing special characters, i.e. "ć" (c with apostrophe)
prevents OO from starting (gives some confusing error in dialog box and aborts).
Apparently, OO converts special characters into ASCII characters and tries to
find directory with this new name in "Documents and Settings" directory and fails.
No such user name and user directory exists so it fails to write its files to disk.

If I create such a directory with special characters modified to ASCII (i.e. "ć"
to "c"), then OO works OK and saves its files to this new directory.
This also creates another issue that this new directory is now the default
document directory (instead of using user's directory).

I did not try other OS's (only Windows XP Home) but the issue could be common
depending how other OS's handle special characters.
Comment 1 urmasd 2012-03-08 12:43:26 UTC 
Someone should confirm it and raise severity.
Comment 2 Edwin Sharp 2014-01-31 12:47:09 UTC 
Can not reproduce
AOO410m1(Build:9750)  -  Rev. 1562493
Rev.1562493
Win 7
Comment 3 urmasd 2014-01-31 13:13:09 UTC 
Perfectly reproducible with Rev.1562980

Stop vandalizing Bugzilla please.
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2014-01-31 13:16:43 UTC 
Created attachment 82450 [details]
c with apostrophe in user name
Comment 5 Edwin Sharp 2014-01-31 13:19:08 UTC 
(In reply to urmasd from comment #3)
> Perfectly reproducible with Rev.1562980
> 
> Stop vandalizing Bugzilla please.

Please attach example / exact steps to reproduce and don't waste my time.
Comment 6 urmasd 2014-01-31 19:38:35 UTC 
1. Windows user account name was meant.
2. 'C with apostrophe' is obviously ć, not ç.
Comment 7 Edwin Sharp 2014-02-01 16:00:16 UTC 
Thank you for this clarification.
Comment 8 Edwin Sharp 2014-02-01 16:05:35 UTC 
Confirmed per comment 3.

I personally cannot enter c with apostrophe to computer name in Win 7 using:
Start menu - right click Computer - Properties - Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings - Change settings - Computer Name - Change...
Comment 9 urmasd 2014-02-02 05:08:22 UTC 
Account name, not a computer name.
Comment 10 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-06 13:07:30 UTC 
*** Issue 123156 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***