Ren'py won't run in non-ascii characters directories

[take_w]

I'm using version 6.99.4 and basically built "the question" come with the package and renamed the folder name to Japanese.
It won't run when there are more than 5 non-ascii characters. 4 characters are fine though.



I tried with Ren'py version 6.16.5 since its release history mentioned it can run in non-ASCII directories and it works perfectly fine no matter how long they are.

I used "テストですけど" for the running test purpose.


I'd appreciate if you look into this problem.
Thanks in advance.


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Ren'py version 6.99.4 and 6.16.5
OS Windows 7 64bit

[iichan_lolbot]

It's a very old bug, and it is quite important for non-english users, because some of them unpack games to something like "c:\Users\<non-ASCII-username>\Desktop\".
Please, fix it already.

[PyTom]

I believe this was fixed a few versions ago, but it does require that that path to Ren'Py be representable in the non-unicode character set. If a Ren'Py game is in:

c:\テストですけど

It will work on a Japanese system, but not one that uses English or Russian.

This is distinct from the issue of encoding in zip files, where only ASCII works reliably.