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Created attachment 153095 [details] Successful launch of NetBeans 7.3 with non-ascii char in path Action: 1) Copy NetBeans 7.4 to a path that contains non-ascii characters (e.g. "C:\Users\Max Müller\NetBeans") 2) Launch netbeans.exe Actual Behavior: NetBeans does not start up, error message: "Cannot be run from folder that contains non-ASCII characters in path." Expected Behavior: NetBeans should start, because it was possible in NetBeans 7.3. To me, this is an incompatible change. The Reason, why it's not working anymore, is the fix for Bug #222850, see http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/diff/50a5e3d432ba/ide/launcher/windows/nblauncher.cpp I think this bugfix is too rough. NetBeans was starting in many cases and had no problems even if the path contained non-ascii characters. I would accept the recommendation to just use a path with non-ascii characters, but we have one problematic use case: We have a NetBeans Platform based Application that is installed by users that don't have admin rights on their Windows machine. So the most reasonable option is to install the application to their user directory. But if their Windows user name contains non-ascii characters, this is not possible with NetBeans 7.4 (and later).