`ENV["USERNAME"]` with non-english characters

[johroj]

My ENV["USERNAME"] contains the letter ö, which results in an Error: /undefinedfilename in C:\...\Temp/GMTjl_<name>.ps

A workaround is

ENV["USERNAME"] = "my_name_with_english_spelling" # must be set before triggering __init__()
using GMT

but it is not very convenient.

[joa-quim]

Sorry,

I missed this issue. Can you please post the full error stack?

[johroj]

I think you should be able to reproduce by using my workaround in reverse, i.e.

ENV["USERNAME"] = "jöa-quim"
using GMT

[joa-quim]

Ui, this is bad. I can reproduce it with Portuguese characters as well

julia> PSname[] = "c:\\TMP/GMTjl_joão.ps"
"c:\\TMP/GMTjl_joão.ps"

but than the produced file is (renamed by Windows to) c:\\TMP/GMTjl_joão.png and it fails to open it automatically.

But for me it fails silently. No error message. What was the command you run that resulted in an error message being printed?

Not sure what is the best way of fixing this. Adding the username to file name was a need in systems with multi users.

[johroj]

Running

G = sphinterpolate("@mars370d.txt", region=:global, inc=1, tension=:p)
imshow(G, proj=:guess, shade=true)

in a pluto notebook gives me an error message at least.

Maybe string(hash(ENV["USERNAME"]), base = 16) could be used instead of the raw user name?

[joa-quim]

Yes, that's a good idea. Or just filter the non-ascii characters. Strange that this issue never came out before. I imagine all Asiatic people with no ascii characters in their user names.

[joa-quim]

Should be fixed by #1864