Alexandre B A Villares 馃悕

Cheers people, anyone into C++ #CPP would like to help both the #Python and #Java communities at once?

I have this #jpype issue that affects many Portuguese-speaking users (and I bet, other international users) that have non-ascii chars in their folder names scattered through their OSs.... https://github.com/jpype-project/jpype/issues/1111

This causes trouble for me personally because #py5 depends on jpype and my students have #ThonnyIDE frequently in a directory with non-ascii chars in its path, due to their usernames or on "脕rea de Trabalho" (desktop)... etc.

Issue with non-ascii characters in the JVM path on Windows 路 Issue #1111 路 jpype-project/jpype

Context: in Brazil, many users have names, usernames and various directories containing non-ascii characters. I found this issue because some students couldn't run the same project/tools that other...

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Show threadpy5codingNov 4, 2023
@villares I added this to my todo list and will see what I can do after the next release. I should be able to replicate this in a Virtual Machine
Show threadAlexandre B A Villares 馃悕Nov 4, 2023

@py5coding today I had a student who couldn't start py5 on Thonny, I was lucky I had a hunch it was something to do with this issue, and it was!

I was hopping we could get someone else to help us, you know, getting an issue fixed *and* getting more people involved, expanding the "contributors circle of love" 馃槉

Show threadpy5codingNov 4, 2023
@villares yes, that would be excellent! Help with this would be much appreciated!!
Show threadAlexandre B A Villares 馃悕Nov 4, 2023
@py5coding Victor @vepo, would you have a spare slot on your busy schedule?
Show threadVictor Os贸rioNov 6, 2023
@villares @py5coding hey Alexandre, sorry! No time for coding after work. 馃槶
Show threadAlexandre B A Villares 馃悕Nov 6, 2023
@vepo @py5coding no worries! Take good care of yourself!