#611 - X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

X2Go Bug report logs - #611
X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

Reported by: <trakatelis@uom.gr>

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 4.0.2.1

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From: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
To: George Trakatelis <trakatelis@uom.edu.gr>, 566@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#566: Bug#566: X2Go Client for Windows 4.0.2.1
 cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the local
 Windows account username has non-Ascii characters
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Hi Mike#2, hi George, On So 07 Sep 2014 12:04:51 CEST, George Trakatelis wrote: > c. As toLocal8Bit() returns the local 8-bit representation of a string, > I changed the system locale for non-unicode programs to German. > Now the patch worked! > > I think the patch solves the problem for the Windows users who use English > as a foreign language and prefer having (non-Ascii) usernames in > their native language. > > -George > > PS. A better title for the bug would be > > X2Go Client for Windows 4.0.2.1 cannot create > C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the local Windows > account username has non-Ascii characters Now that I think of it more thoroughly... Shouldn't we do a proper encode/decode here so that we convert UTF-8 to Windows-CP1251 encoding [1]? Alternatively, one could work with filenames in UTF-16 as shown in this [2] example. I am not sure about the exact position in the code that bugs this up, but I fear, the solution is non-trivial. Either you need to detect the client-side encoding and convert between UTF-8 and that encoding, or we may consider addressing file names in UTF-16 (if that is possible in Qt). Unfortunately, it seems that Windows uses different encodings at different places (e.g. command.exe vs. Windows Explorer). Just guessing after a little bit of internet research on this, Mike#1 [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.general/39868 [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/subsurface@hohndel.org/msg00099.html -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb

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X2Go Bug report logs - #611 X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale

X2Go Bug report logs - #611
X2Go Client for Windows cannot create C:\Users\<username>\ssh\known_hosts file when the username has characters from languages other than the system locale