https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57338
Bug ID: 57338 Summary: wine-gecko/wine-mono don't cache their installers if using a username with unicode characters Product: Wine Version: 9.19 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download, source Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: programs Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: austinenglish@gmail.com Distribution: Debian
Noticed while looking at https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/pull/2278
I created a test user (`tëstuser`). If I then run Wine under that user, I get a popup to install wine-mono. The installer downloads and installs wine-mono, great.
Making a second prefix shows the installer prompt again. The installer doesn't get cached in ~/.cache/wine (as it does for my normal, ascii-named user).
If the installer is put in /usr/local/share/wine/mono, it gets picked up from there, as expected.
Which makes me wonder, are unicode characters supported in usernames for wine? I suspect there may be other lurking issues like this, if so.
FWIW, Windows appears to support it (though various software is broken when doing so), see https://cornevandriel.com/articles/unicode-in-windows-usernames