Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] cleanup: windows: convert argv (UCS-2 to UTF-8) at earliest

[Alon Bar-L. <alo...@gm...>]

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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gm...> wrote:
> 2012/4/27 Samuli Seppänen <sa...@op...>:
>> Il 27.04.2012 12:18, Heiko Hund ha scritto:
>>> On Friday 27 April 2012 09:54:15 Samuli Seppänen wrote:
>>>> Anyways, I cross-compiled latest "master" with this patch applied and
>>>> "bin" and "lib" directories on top of an existing openvpn-2.3-alpha1
>>>> install. The old "bin" directory was renamed to make sure none of it was
>>>> used. I then renamed "openvpn.ovpn" to "ääliö.ovpn" and "ta.key" to
>>>> "ääliö.key" using Windows Explorer. Then I updated the configuration
>>>> file to point to these files using Notepad (and later Wordpad).
>>> Notepad saves UTF-8 files with BOM, which is very uncommon. Maybe that was the
>>> problem. I ran into that when I was testing my patch. You might want to try
>>> using Notepad++ and save it as UTF-8 without BOM.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Heiko
>> Saved the configuration file to UTF-8 without BOM - after this I got no
>> complaints from OpenVPN-GUI. Launching OpenVPN from the command prompt
>> also worked... tls-auth was undefined in the config, and openvpn called
>> like this:
>
> if bom is a problem we should handle it properly in options.c, as we
> cannot expect users to understand bom issues.
>
>>
>>> openvpn --config ääliö.ovpn --tls-auth ääliö.key 1
>>
>> Only minor issue was that the command prompt displayed funky characters
>> instead of the proper ones:
>>
>> <http://users.utu.fi/sjsepp/cmd2.png>
>
> Yes. this is OK.
>
> Alon.