Cannot use Remote-Containers when %userprofile% has German umlauts in it's path

[lhaussknecht]

Type: Bug

On a Windows 11 system with a user that has umlauts in his/her name and thus with a %userprofile% with umlauts Remote-Containers cannot start.

Extension version: 0.245.0 VS Code version: Code 1.70.1 (6d9b74a70ca9c7733b29f0456fd8195364076dda, 2022-08-10T06:08:33.642Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22000 Modes: Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Logs: gist

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[chrmarti]

It can't find tar, not sure if that is related to the username. What do you get for running (gcm tar).Path in PowerShell?

[lhaussknecht]

Hi, thanks for taking your time.

❯ (gcm tar).Path
C:\Windows\system32\tar.exe

[github-actions[bot]]

Hey @chrmarti, this issue might need further attention.

@lhaussknecht, you can help us out by closing this issue if the problem no longer exists, or adding more information.

[chrmarti]

If you have Node.js installed, what do you get for running node -p "process.env.PATH.split(';')" in a terminal?

[github-actions[bot]]

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