Re: [HTCondor-users] Unicode environment variables on Windows.

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I pass unicode value in the job environment job works fine on linux 
> but fails to decode variable value string on windows.

	On Windows, the API to set environment variables requires that you 
specify if the variables are ANSI or Unicode.  HTCondor currently uses the 
ANSI version, which does locale-aware conversion into the UTF-16 encoding 
that Windows actually stores in the environment.  It seems like this 
conversion doesn't know what to do with UTF-8 encoded Unicode.  It may be 
possible to construct a work-around by encoding the variable values in 
UTF-16 and adjusting the locale, but that would make your submit file 
(more) Windows-specific.

	I would recommend that you use your existing work-around, instead.

- ToddM