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.