Cannot install GLMakie on Windows if user name contains non-ASCII symbols

[Alex-Samarkin]

• [0.22] what version of Makie are you running? (]st -m Makie)
• [yes] can you reproduce the bug with a fresh environment ? (]activate --temp; add Makie)
• [Intel 12350 CPU, Windows 11 Pro, Integrated Card ] What platform + GPU are you on?

Cannot install GLMakie on Windows if user name contains non-ASCII symbols.
Latest Julia version (v1.11.2 and 1.11.3)
If name of user is something like User - all OK
If name of User is Пользователь (Russian) - makie can't install.

Think its because C:\Users\Пользователь.julia path.

[SimonDanisch]

Error?

[Alex-Samarkin]

✗ Makie
✗ GLMakie
5 dependencies successfully precompiled in 53 seconds. 334 already precompiled.
2 dependencies errored

PkgPrecompileError: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

GLMakie

Failed to precompile GLMakie [e9467ef8-e4e7-5192-8a1a-b1aee30e663a] to "C:\Users\Пользователь\.julia\compiled\v1.11\GLMakie\jl_7751.tmp".
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to open C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\assets\icons\icon-128.png
Stacktrace:
[1] load
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\PNGFiles\CBHvB\src\io.jl:47 [inlined]
[2] load_icon
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\Makie.jl:351 [inlined]
[3] iterate
@ .\generator.jl:48 [inlined]
[4] _collect(c::Vector{String}, itr::Base.Generator{Vector{String}, typeof(Makie.load_icon)}, ::Base.EltypeUnknown, isz::Base.HasShape{1})
@ Base .\array.jl:811
[5] collect_similar
@ .\array.jl:720 [inlined]
[6] map
@ .\abstractarray.jl:3371 [inlined]
[7] icon
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\Makie.jl:358 [inlined]
[8] macro expansion
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\precompiles.jl:28 [inlined]
[9] macro expansion
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\PrecompileTools\L8A3n\src\workloads.jl:78 [inlined]
[10] top-level scope
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\precompiles.jl:27
[11] include(x::String)
@ Makie C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\Makie.jl:1
[12] top-level scope
@ C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\Makie.jl:407
[13] top-level scope
@ stdin:6
in expression starting at C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\precompiles.jl:26
in expression starting at C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\Makie\Q6F2P\src\Makie.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:6
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Makie [ee78f7c6-11fb-53f2-987a-cfe4a2b5a57a] to "C:\Users\Пользователь\.julia\compiled\v1.11\Makie\jl_7AA0.tmp".
Stacktrace:
[1] mkpidlock(f::Base.var"#1110#1111"{Base.PkgId}, at::String, pid::Int32; kwopts::@kwargs{stale_age::Int64, wait::Bool})
@ FileWatching.Pidfile C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\juliaup\julia-1.11.3+0.x64.w64.mingw32\share\julia\stdlib\v1.11\FileWatching\src\pidfile.jl:95
[2] top-level scope
@ stdin:6
in expression starting at C:\Users\Пользователь.julia\packages\GLMakie\fj8mE\src\GLMakie.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:

[SimonDanisch]

Hm seems to be a utf8 problem in the PNG C library:

https://github.com/JuliaIO/PNGFiles.jl/blob/cd3a53250a1d3ea017f735c6bc3fa94d3b1cfae2/src/wraphelpers.jl#L31-L43

Don't know fopen well enough to know, if this is just incorrectly called or a problem in C.
You should open an issue there, or maybe you know :fopen better than me and can propose a fix :)

[SimonDanisch]

For all it's worth, Chatgpt says it may be a windows problem:

[Alex-Samarkin]

Something wrong with UTF inside underlying C layer.