I had to install Sublime Text 2.0.1 on a Winsows system under a user with a cyrillic name. After I launch the editor, the console output is this:
startup cache, total files: 96 cache hits: 96
startup time: 3.18737 (package setup was not run)
loaded 837 snippets
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".\threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
File ".\Package Control.py", line 2378, in run
File ".\Package Control.py", line 1686, in record_usage
File ".\Package Control.py", line 1007, in download_url
File ".\Package Control.py", line 602, in download
File ".\urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
File ".\urllib2.py", line 391, in open
File ".\urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
File ".\urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
File ".\Package Control.py", line 92, in https_open
File ".\urllib2.py", line 1133, in do_open
File ".\httplib.py", line 910, in request
File ".\httplib.py", line 947, in _send_request
File ".\httplib.py", line 904, in endheaders
File ".\httplib.py", line 776, in _send_output
File ".\httplib.py", line 735, in send
File ".\Package Control.py", line 71, in connect
File ".\ssl.py", line 350, in wrap_socket
File ".\ssl.py", line 113, in __init__
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 9-16: ordinal not in range(128)
As one of the consequences of that - I can install the Package Manager, but using its “install package” command fails silently (or maybe with the same error trace), so it is a pretty severe thing. Maybe it brings more complications but I have not explored any further.
So… this is not a deadly problem - another user account with a latin name can be created, but this is an inconvinience… especially with all those user settings and such.
UPDATE:
Same machine, but now user with only latin symbols in his name: Package Manager works fine, however, when I try to build a CoffeeScript source, I get this:
Writing file /C/programming/_projects_/hw.coffee with encoding UTF-8
Running coffee.cmd -c C:\programming\_projects_\hw.coffee
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".\sublime_plugin.py", line 337, in run_
File ".\exec.py", line 154, in run
File ".\exec.py", line 45, in __init__
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
I did not have this problem on a machine with english Windows 7.