App crashes using non-ascii path on windows

[sant9ga]

App closes in 1-2 sec after start. If start with .bat and pause, then I could see the error:

[rphmeier]

Probably unicode-related? Not sure if rocksdb can handle UTF-8 paths properly

[sant9ga]

Maybe. May I manually lead it to another folder?

[rphmeier]

@sant9ga Yeah, try running with parity -d /path/to/ascii/folder as a workaround.

[sant9ga]

I've already renamed my username's folder into english, it helped!
But thanks for the responds!

[arkpar]

The problem is that rocksdb uses non-unicode windows API. (CreateFileA but not CreateFileW) So all the paths and error messages need to be converted between utf-8 and local codepage with MultiByteToWideChar and friends

[5chdn]

This issue is labelled with bug: The client fails to follow expected behavior; and is inactive for more than 6 months. It's neither assigned nor linked to a milestone.

Please, decide on a deadline and assign this ticket to a developer within 7 days or close it if fixed otherwise.

[grbIzl]

https://github.com/arkpar/rust-rocksdb/pull/10/ created in order to address the issue

[grbIzl]

Sorry, correct PR is paritytech/rust-rocksdb#7

[arkpar]

Fixed by #5905