Fail to run on portuguese windows systems

[Shai Shasag]

My application is build using python 3.6.6 and pyinstaller 3.4.

The application runs on most Windows systems, but on some Portuguese only Brazilian Windows 10 - it does not run at all, i.e. the application immediate returns.

I tried reducing the issue by building a single file containing only a single line:

print("Hello World")

without any imports.

This also fails to run under these Portuguese only Brazilian Windows 10.

Enabling Portuguese on a English based system does not reproduce the issue.

Any idea what could be the problem?

Thanks,

Shai Shasag

[bwoodsend]

Could you upgrade your PyInstaller? Encodings and locales used to be a very prominent issue when we were trying to support Python2 and Python3 which handle encodings very differently. But it should've been cleared up by now.

[Shai Shasag]

I rebuild the minimal application using python 3.6.6 and pyinstaller 4.0.

To no avail. The app does not run on Portuguese/Brazilian Windows 10.

What else can I try?

Thanks,

Shai Shasag

[bwoodsend]

Is it possible there are any non-acsii filenames involved - either where you put the program, the username of the Portuguese machine, or any of the TEMPDIRs? There was a fix for that made quite recently but it hasn’t been released yet. I’ve built a wheel with the changes included so you can try it here. Be sure to uninstall your current PyInstaller before installing that one as pip gets a bit confused by local distributions.

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[Shai Shasag]

4.1 seems to work! Thanks.

Can you describe what changed in 4.1 with regard to such issues?

[bwoodsend]

The change I think it is is bootloader: pyi_path_fullpath: use _wfullpath() #5189 . Basically the bootloader (the little program which loads Python and runs your code) used an ascii-only data type to handle filenames which obviously means that it will fall to bits on encountering anything unicode. It’s written in C though which is why you can’t just install from Github. PyInstaller 4.1 is supposed to be released very soon though (actually it should have been released already) …

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[Shai Shasag]

Ok thanks for the info. Any estimation when 4.1 will be released? We have several Brazilian users who are waiting for a solution...

Thanks again & keep up the good work!

Shai

[bwoodsend]

I honestly haven't a clue. It's whenever Harmut has enough time to make the release which could be this afternoon or in a months time. We're not as short staffed as we used to be but things still take a while in PyInstaller land.

[bwoodsend]

4.1 is released!