Error: Failed to convert C:\Users\李明(Some wide characters) to UTF-16!

[ffhome]

I'm from China. In my Windows 10 Simplified Chinese, I found a problem that if you log in Windows with a user name in Chinese, the software will show an error： Failed to convert C:\Users\李明 to UTF-16! If you log in with an English username, everything's fine. In Windows, character encoding is ANSI, like GB2312. In Linux, it's UTF8. Is there a problem here? I would appreciate it if you could fix this. Thanks. (My operating environment: hactool 1.33, Windows 10 Simplified Chinese Version 2004 x64)

[uaevuon]

Just don't use folders and files name other than ascii. Not just hactool, every other programs can cause issue. Using user name as CJK on windows messes up everything.

[gyorokpeter]

It is because the program assumes that the paths read from %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% etc. are in UTF-8, while normally they are in your system locale. I changed the code to the following in filepath.c, not sure if it doesn't introduce any other bugs:

void os_strcpy(oschar_t *dst, const char *src) {
#ifdef _WIN32
    if (src == NULL) return;
    size_t srcLen = strlen(src);
    int requiredSize = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP,0,src,srcLen,0,0);
    if (requiredSize > MAX_PATH-1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to convert %s to UTF-16: required size too large!\n", src);
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    int retval = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP,0,src,srcLen,dst,requiredSize);
    if (!retval) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to convert %s to UTF-16!\n", src);
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
#else
    strcpy(dst, src);
#endif
}

[Thesola10]

windows can be a real pain sometimes I plan on including a Python-based frontend to my (currently wip) wrapper around hactool, this will probably fix all file-related issues, since Python can handle multiple encodings without issue.

[SciresM]

@Thesola10 hactool isn't really maintained or maintainable any more fyi.

Its replacement is currently a work in progress, and unicode should work fine with it.

[Thesola10]

Cool! Do you have a rough timeframe as to when that tool might be ready, so I know if I should keep working on my wrapper or wait for the new tool? I'm trying to automate my translation patcher so I'll probably need to make a Python wrapper anyway.

[SciresM]

I don't like to provide ETAs, as a matter of course. Source for the wip stuff is available at Atmosphere-NX/hac2l though.

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