Error handling ENV-variables containing é

[AND51]

Hello!

When executing this code:

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If ExamineEnvironmentVariables() 
  While NextEnvironmentVariable() 
    Debug EnvironmentVariableName() + " = " + EnvironmentVariableValue() 
  Wend 
EndIf 

I noticed that there are some Environmentvariables that contain an é in it's value:

ALLUSERSPROFILE = C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users
APPDATA = C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Andr‚\Anwendungsdaten
CLIENTNAME = Console
CommonProgramFiles = C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien
[...]
USERNAME = Andr‚
USERPROFILE = C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Andr‚
windir = C:\WINDOWS

As you might have noticed: è is replaced by comma, so in fact it must be "André" instead of "Andr,"...

Is this an error 'made by Windows'? I have seen some other programs (not made in PB) who also have this error, those programs always try to write into the wrong path => so they create a directory named "Andr,".

Any ideas?

[Kaeru Gaman]

Any ideas?

don't (no don't, I mean do not never ever, under no circumstances) use extra-chars in environment-variables.

stick to Chr(65)-Chr(90) and Chr(48) - Chr(57) for the sure side.
in earlier days, (environment)variable-names could not begin with a number,
so, when you stick to the basic 26 capital letters, all will be fine.

it maybe seem stoneage for you, but then just be glad you can use a Space-char in filenames longer than 8 places.

[AND51]

I know what you want to say but if windows offers me to choose a username with special chars, why shouldn't I use this offer?

My name, André, appears correctly everywhere: in startmenu (XP), when using GetUserName_(), in my/other programs, ... but not in these envirnomentvariables.

[Trond]

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I know what you want to say but if windows offers me to choose a username with special chars, why shouldn't I use this offer?

Because it gets you into trouble with enviroment variables.

No seriously, it should work.

[AND51]

I'm not the onliest one using special chars...

> No seriously, it should work.
But it doesn't. Furthemore, I've seen other programs, too, having exactly this problem. Before I started coding in PB I wondered why there is always a directory named "Andr,"... Now I know why. Well, is this a problem in windows, then?