Invalid wallet path with Chinese characters in windows #13103

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   promag commented at 2:05 PM on April 27, 2018: member

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   Reported in #13100 (comment) by @ken2812221.

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2. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 2:06 PM on April 27, 2018: member

   Is this on master or only with your pull request?

3. MarcoFalke added the label Windows on Apr 27, 2018
4. MarcoFalke added the label GUI on Apr 27, 2018
5. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.17.0 on Apr 27, 2018
6. MarcoFalke added the label good first issue on Apr 27, 2018
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   promag commented at 2:08 PM on April 27, 2018: member

   I think #13100 has nothing to do with it.

8. promag cross-referenced this on Apr 27, 2018 from issue gui: Add dynamic wallets support by promag
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   ken2812221 commented at 2:13 PM on April 27, 2018: contributor

   I think this can happen with non-ASCII characters, not only Chinese.

10. ken2812221 cross-referenced this on Apr 28, 2018 from issue Fix Windows locale problem by ken2812221
11. 
    r0zar commented at 9:55 PM on April 30, 2018: none

    Found this on the previously used addresses page:

12. 
    ken2812221 commented at 10:45 PM on April 30, 2018: contributor

    @r0zar That is #12544

13. ken2812221 cross-referenced this on May 9, 2018 from issue [WIP] Wrap C++17 std::filesystem::path to solve encoding issue on Windows. by ken2812221
14. ken2812221 cross-referenced this on Jun 10, 2018 from issue [bugfix] Fix encoding issue for Windows by ken2812221
15. DrahtBot cross-referenced this on Jun 14, 2018 from issue [net,mempool] Call AcceptToMemoryPool() asynchronously in p2p by skeees
16. DrahtBot cross-referenced this on Jun 19, 2018 from issue gui: Add leading 0 to QT_VERSION check for QFontDatabase by fanquake
17. DrahtBot cross-referenced this on Jul 9, 2018 from issue release: require macOS 10.10+ by fanquake
18. DrahtBot cross-referenced this on Jul 16, 2018 from issue wallet: Fix backupwallet for multiwallets by domob1812
19. achow101 cross-referenced this on Jul 24, 2018 from issue Windows crashes for -wallet=你好 by Sjors
20. MarcoFalke removed this from the milestone 0.17.0 on Aug 1, 2018
21. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.18.0 on Aug 1, 2018
22. 
    laanwj commented at 4:49 PM on February 13, 2019: member

    Is this still an issue with #13787 (and dependencies) merged?

23. 
    ken2812221 commented at 4:54 PM on February 13, 2019: contributor

    I think this could be closed.

24. MarcoFalke closed this on Feb 13, 2019

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25. kiminuo cross-referenced this on Jun 11, 2020 from issue Replace boost::filesystem with std::filesystem by kiminuo
26. bitcoin locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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