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Comment by ainiriand | Hacker News Reader

A missing point here:

If you have an accent in your username on windows, you are welcome to a kingdom of pain due to pip inability to process paths with non-ascii chars.

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Well, I am greek so accents would be the smallest of my problems if I tried to use my actuall name as a username (Σεραφείμ) :)

Installing stuff on directories containing characters that are not plain-old ASCII letters and underscores (for example there are huge problems when installing things on directories with spaces in Windows) is a major no-no and I didn't even think of mentioning it.

And with anaconda distribution, you can't have any special characters, nor spaces in the path of the installation directory. And, in some machines that have multiple users, the default installation directory is a hidden folder which causes all sorts of issues and requires a reinstall.

Just some of the issues I've encountered running python workshops. Linux and Mac users have far fewer issues.

I believe the spaces issue was fixed in 5.0.1 for Windows - I haven't encountered any issues with it (and have anaconda in a path with spaces.)

Fixed this summer: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/pull/746

On a side note, who’d put an accent on its username? Any person with minimal programming knowledge could imagine how bad idea that is.

Computer asks you to enter your name, you enter your name, name gets used as user name. Seems quite reasonable all around.

As I have a minimal programming knowledge I dont use windows as my dev machine. I am just stating some problems that you can face if you use your real name. For example, I was working for a contractor once and they all had windows machines with pregenerated users. Mine had an accent in the username.

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