On localized windows, XDG gives the wrong folder names

[Roberto Alsina]

Reported by joseantoniorocha in bug #854216

In Windows XP, the log is write to:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\xdg\cache\sso\sso-client.log

instead

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\xdg\cache\sso\sso-client.log

Note the bad handling of accented characters. This create another folder with wrong name.

Maybe this new bug is not related with reported error.

[Anders Honkamaa (anders-expressit)]

I'm experiencing the same on a Swedish Windows XP and noted this in the log.

2011-09-22 11:32:58,292 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Main - INFO - Using 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\anders.honkamaa\\Lokala inst\xc3\xa4llningar\\Application Data\\xdg\\ubuntuone\\syncdaemon' as data dir
2011-09-22 11:32:58,292 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Main - INFO - Using 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\anders.honkamaa\\Lokala inst\xc3\xa4llningar\\Application Data\\xdg\\ubuntuone\\shares' as shares root dir
2011-09-22 11:32:58,292 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.tritcask - INFO - Initializing Tritcask on: C:\Documents and Settings\anders.honkamaa\Lokala inställningar\Application Data\xdg\ubuntuone\syncdaemon\tritcask

It seems to me that Ubuntu One internally encodes characters differently. The last one is the way it's supposed to look.

At installation everything is installed in the Folder with the wrong name.

[Roberto Alsina (ralsina)]

Thanks for the help Anders!

There will be a release later today which includes a fix for this problem.

[Roberto Alsina (ralsina)]

And of course, thanks to Jose who reported it :-)

Somehow I missed posting the reply on the bug when we started working on it. Sorry!

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I tested it on a brazilian XP and the logs are going to the right place.
But I got an encoding error when I got to the "syncing your computer with the cloud" step of the wizard.
Here is my log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/695246/

I mentioned this to alecu, but I don't know if he could take a look at the problem.

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

elopio, can you please try again to see if this bug was fixed?
gatox has done quite a few fixes in our unicode support, so it will be very likely fixed.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I'm still getting an error on the portuguese windows XP. I opened bug #965400.

[Alexandr (olexandr-dmitriev)]

Hi!
I have windows 7 with the russian MUI. My username is written using cyrillic letters. Ubuntu One client 2.0.3, after installing it drops me an error:
UnicodeDecodeError
'ascii'
'C:\\Users\\\xcf\xf3\xf6\xe8\xea\xe8\\'
9
10
'ordinal not in range(128)'