Special Characters in file names

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hess_joel
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Special Characters in file names

Postby hess_joel » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:34 pm

I have a setup that has some files with Spanish characters like Ñ. When I run the installer on Russian windows, I get a file not found error for every file that has a special character. It looks like a bug in the installer. Unfortunately its not an easy thing to just change the file name to omit the characters.

Anything I can do for it?

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Postby MichaelNesmith » Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:45 am

Send us a minimum project that reproduces this issue - ex. a project which installs just one file with such a character in it, and we'll take a look at it.
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hess_joel
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Postby hess_joel » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:18 am

Attached is a project that demonstrates the issue. I've also included the compiled version for you to try.

Here's the file name that we are using.

01Activité de Saisie de données

File Attached:

RussianTester.zip

carlos
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Re: Special Characters in file names

Postby carlos » Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:34 pm

Was this issue ever resolved? I am having a similar problem, we want to use a folder name with a µ character in the name, but InstallAware ignores it if I am including it as a subfolder as part of the Install Files command, or if I explicitly add it as an Install Files folder, the compiler fails at that command. Can special characters be used for folder names in InstallAware?


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