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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-6499

`puppet resource user` does not work on Windows French edition

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      `puppet resource user` can be run without crashing

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      `puppet resource user` can be run without crashing
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      Windows 2016-07-27
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      Bug Fix
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      * `puppet resource group` or `puppet resource user` could previously fail on non-English editions of Windows when there were users or groups present containing Unicode characters. This commonly occurred on the French localized edition of Windows where the "Guest" account is localized as "Invité"
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      * `puppet resource group` or `puppet resource user` could previously fail on non-English editions of Windows when there were users or groups present containing Unicode characters. This commonly occurred on the French localized edition of Windows where the "Guest" account is localized as "Invité"

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      Some basic functionality appears to be broken on a default French Windows that uses code page 850 by default. This uncovered two errors within Puppets logging and output emission at the console - Puppet is trying to use / combine incompatible strings in CP850 and UTF-8.

      Note that the problem only impacts puppet resource user and not puppet resource group - so some investigation should be done to fully understand the problem since those should behave similarly. Note also that no other puppet resource commands have been tested.

      This was discovered while attempting to replicate PUP-5938 - the first attempt to use puppet resource user also failed on Puppet 4.3.0, but with a different error. Not sure if it's worth investing any time in understanding that issue as well.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-7031 Unicode characters in 'comment' don't round-trip on Windows

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-5938 windows, user to groupassign to local administrators failed

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed

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              Assignee:
              erick Erick Banks
              Reporter:
              ethan Ethan Brown
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