Windows account name problems

[Henri Girard]

first look it seems that internationalisation is not working properly : I have the same problem as using french keyboard : each time i have to set the kb in kde ... but it doesn't save for the next time !
on linux I always use old methods : no accent no space... 
Maybe you may do the same ?
good luck
Henri
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Erik Montnémery 
  To: kde-cygwin at kde.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:53 AM
  Subject: Windows account name problems


  It seems that the batch files for starting kde-cygwin mangles my Windows account name, thus making a lot of weird stuff when trying to copy and create preferences to my home dir.
  My username is "Erik Montnémery" and obviously contains a space and an extended character. At first try, the batch script really messed up, and i enclosed all paths in "" like so:

  mkdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\home\%USERNAME% --> mkdir "%CYGWIN_ROOT%\home\%USERNAME%"

  I think the batch files are actually incorrect as is, and all paths should be enclosed in "", things would mess up just as bad if cygwin was installed in "c:\Program Files\cygwin", which i guess isn't that exotic.

  That removed some of the errors, however the 'é' gets mangled at some time and most files are thus copied to /home/cygwin/Erik Montn,mery instead of to my home directory. (It's not that I don't like this Erik Montn,mery guy, he's probably nice, but I'd rather keep my files in my own homedir)

  What can I do to make things behave nicer? Should i just rename my windows account? No other apps seems to be bothered by it though, and i kind of like the idea of the account name having the same name as me.

  Regards,
  Erik Montnémery


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