To Windows users who have non-ascii UserName

Don Hosek don.hosek at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 05:55:21 CEST 2021


On 28 Apr 2021, at 22:44, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at w32tex.org> wrote:
> 
>> And redefine the value of the environment variable USERPROFILE
>> as the c:\Users\SuitableASCIIname, which is a sumbolic link of
>> c:\Users\username.
> 
> The above is done in a cmd window by
> set USERPROFILE=c:\Users\SuitableASCIIname
> 
> I don't know how to change USERPROFILE permanently.

This answer does a pretty good job of covering the bases on this topic: https://superuser.com/a/284351 <https://superuser.com/a/284351> for Windows Vista and later you can write:


setx USERPROFILE "c:\Users\SuitableASCIIname"

note the x in the command and the lack of an = sign. Also, the quotes are mandatory if the value has spaces.

-dh
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