Invalid wallet path with Chinese characters in windows #13103

1. 
   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.

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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.

9. 
   r0zar commented at 9:55 PM on April 30, 2018: none

   Found this on the previously used addresses page:

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

    @r0zar That is #12544

11. MarcoFalke removed this from the milestone 0.17.0 on Aug 1, 2018
12. MarcoFalke added this to the milestone 0.18.0 on Aug 1, 2018
13. 
    laanwj commented at 4:49 PM on February 13, 2019: member

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

14. 
    ken2812221 commented at 4:54 PM on February 13, 2019: contributor

    I think this could be closed.

15. MarcoFalke closed this on Feb 13, 2019

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16. MarcoFalke locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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