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6 months ago Run your game with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 (or another .UTF-8 locale, if you have any installed – note that the only one a Steam Deck has by default is C.UTF-8) or LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
Originally reported to the Penumbra repo, but was directed here.
pasting original report from https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra/issues/350:
Playing on linux.
As the title says, penumbra completely fails to import mods that have non-ASCII characters in the name, such as chinese symbols, umlauts or the like. A workaround currently is to edit the .mpl file in the .ttmp2 archive before importing and removing any symbols that would result in a filepath with non-ASCII characters.
This works until you want to install something with Heliosphere; due to the automated nature of this plugin it's not possible to edit the .mpl beforehand, resulting in many mods simply being uninstallable.
Think a solution that doesn't cause problems down the line is to add a toggle into Penumbra settings called "Sanitize filenames to ASCII only" or similar. Easy way to handle the symbols would be simply to replace them with a ~ or - or some other simple symbol, or simply delete them from the filename.
Could this also be related to https://github.com/goatcorp/wine-xiv-git/issues/15 ?