Problem with non-acsii userprofile name on Windows (7)

[danyaPostfactum]

Problem with .vcxproj file. node-gyp writes it in system codepage (non-utf8), while xml prolog specifies utf-8 in encoding attribute. This causes error while trying to build the project.
My userprofile contains cyrillic characters, so I get non-ACSII characters in paths.

[jfhenriques]

Why didn't this got any attention? This is an important issue. I cannot use node-gyp because my name is João, and I'm not going to create another user just for compiling purposes...

[danyaPostfactum]

...and I'm not going to create another user...

I did (because of too often similar issues) :) But of course , this is very bad solution..

[jfhenriques]

I was refering that its not pratical to change users each time I need to update or install a package that needs node-gyp. I ended up copying the .node-gyp directory created in my home dir to other place and passed the --nodedir flag. Of course it will not work with npm install, but its better than keep changing users.

[JayBeavers]

One of the beauties of open source is if the problem really annoys you, you are fully empowered to fix it!

There's a lot of work needed to fix issues in node-gyp, so I'm not personally going to be able to investigate this in the near future. Could one of you do the investigation, make a fix, and submit a pull request? @danyaPostfactum @jfhenriques

[jfhenriques]

Hy @JayBeavers I submited a pull request that still needs some work.

At least now it works for me, but it might break for others.

Please take a look at #366

[JayBeavers]

@jfhenriques, your patch is in gyp itself. node-gyp copies gyp from a separate repository, stored here: https://code.google.com/p/gyp/

Please submit your issue in their repository: https://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/list
Then submit your patch using the process documented here: https://code.google.com/p/gyp/wiki/GypHacking

Then please come back here when your patch is integrated with gyp and we will update our code. This process takes a while because node-gyp is copied into npm and npm is copied into nodejs and gyp is also copied independently into nodejs directly, so lots of refreshes need to be made before a fix to gyp takes effect.

[reverofevil]

It's 2014. There's still no Unicode support in node-gyp. That's hilarious.

[jfhenriques]

For those who are still waiting for this to be fixed, take a look at the solution I posted here:
#366 (comment)

[wizzard0]

I second the need for the patch.

[myrises]

@MattouFP
your "Fix encoding problems in easy_xml.py" (#554):

+ # Fix encoding
+ xml_string = unicode(xml_string, 'latin-1').encode(encoding)

is not working with cyrillic symbols 😞
for correct work in this case 🇷🇺 need another patch:

+ # Fix encoding for cyrillc symbols
+ xml_string = unicode(xml_string, 'Windows-1251').encode(encoding)

This is not good solution in whole. Need a change solution provider maybe ⁉️

[Sogl]

@knyazhe1, It not helps me...=(
Windows 8.1 x64, VS 2013 sp4, Russian language in username

Can't install loopback:
http://loopback.io/getting-started/

Output:

C:\Users\Артем\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\strongloop\node_modules\strong-s
upervisor\node_modules\heapdump>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\nod
ejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.
js" rebuild )  else (rebuild)
Сборка проектов в этом решении по одному. Чтобы включить параллельную сборку, до
бавьте параметр "/m".
C:\Users\Артем\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\strongloop\node_modules\strong-
supervisor\node_modules\heapdump\build\addon.vcxproj(47,46): error MSB4025: не
удалось загрузить файл проекта. Недопустимый знак для указанной кодировки., стр
ока 47, позиция 46.
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\msbuild.exe` fail
ed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modul
es\node-gyp\lib\build.js:269:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1074
:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.3.9600
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\
bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Артем\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\strongloop\node_mod
ules\strong-supervisor\node_modules\heapdump
gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.3
gyp ERR! not ok
\

I'm from this issue #404

[Sogl]

Finally fixed!
@MattouFP, @knyazhe1, thx for the solution!

My problem was in editing of the wrong file - easy_xml.py on Roaming folder (-g flag in install), but packet file runs node-gyp in Node.js installation directory.

[Chudesnov]

I believe this issue has to be re-opened.

Unfortunately, the fix provided in 39a06bc affects only Western (Latin-1) releases of Windows, as Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Baltic and Vietnamese releases use different ANSI code pages.

There is, fortunately, a universal WinAPI method (available on Windows 2000 or higher) for detecting the default ANSI code page, GetACP(), used internally by the locale Python package. Using locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] instead of "Latin-1" fixes this issue on Cyrillic (Russian) Windows 8.1.

[reverofevil]

@Chudesnov Could you make it into a pull request, please? As it is obvious from the existence of this issue, Nathan doesn't have required skills to support this project. Even with such a deep detail on implementation it's quite unlikely this issue will get fixed.

[roman-yerin]

Still valid. Merge #945 to fix it please

[heretikkk]

i cant to install npm on win10. node-gyp really bad