Subject: Re: Problems uploading files with non-English characters on Win 10
From: Terri
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 01:40:55 +0000
Hi,

So far so good. I've tried a few other languages as well and they've all worked okay. Everything was uploaded from the limited testing that I've done. Thanks for the quick solution!

Regards,
T

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------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, May 19th, 2022 at 4:25 AM, Ondřej Jirman <megatools@megous.com> wrote:


> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 02:37:38AM +0000, Terri wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. You replied: "Check what environment variables megacmd
> > sets and set them, yourself in powershell before running megatools. That
> > should help."
> >
> > How do I check what environment variables megacmd sets? All I do in PowerShell
> > when using megacmd is this:
> >
> > Open a PowerShell console then type these commands in:
> > Set-Alias megacmd "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\MEGAcmd\MEGAclient.exe"
> > megacmd login "my@email.com" "mypassword"
> > megacmd put "C:\Upload\Привет мир.txt"
>
>
> I meant megacmd.bat in the megatools package. Anyway, it doesn't set anyhting
> useful other than PATH.
>
> Try this build: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/megatools-1.11.0-git-20220518-win64.zip
>
> kind regards,
> o.
>
> > and it just works. I don't need to do anything else in the console.
> >
> > Thanks,Terri
> >
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 at 12:53 AM, Ondřej Jirman megatools@megous.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 08:21:23AM +0000, Terri wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I think there might be a bug with megatools (experimental: megatools-1.11.0-git-20220401-win64) where it won't upload files that contain non-English characters. I'm using PowerShell on Windows 10 64-bit.
> > > >
> > > > For example, trying to upload this file C:\Upload\Привет мир.txt with:
> > > >
> > > > megatools put -u my@email.com -p mypassword "C:\Upload\Привет мир.txt" --path "/Root/" --reload
> > > >
> > > > This is the error message that I get:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: Upload failed for 'C:\Upload\?????? ???.txt': Can't read local file C:\Upload\?????? ???.txt: Error opening file C:\Upload\?????? ???.txt: Invalid argument
> > > >
> > > > Changing the console input and output encoding to UTF-8 doesn't help either:
> > > > [Console]::InputEncoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding
> > > >
> > > > The same thing happens in command prompt as well.
> > > >
> > > > However, it does work ok with megacmd in PowerShell, the displayed text in the PowerShell console might be messed up, but the file is still uploaded with the correct characters nonetheless.
> > > >
> > > > Any assistance would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Check what environment variables megacmd sets and set them, yourself in
> > > powershell before running megatools. That should help.
> > >
> > > kind regards,
> > > o.
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > T