Errors with non-English homedir

[altophohe]

Hello, I am a newbie to Julia. I am trying to practice Julia step by step with Quantecon lecture notes.

Indeed, I noted that the recent Julia version of v1.6 yields lots of bugs (or errors) when loading the package that Quantecon lecture provides. Hence, I downgrade the Julia version to v1.5 and it seemed work. However, I stumbled upon that it still does not load the packages such as Plots or Expectations. For instance, when I typed "Pkg.add("Expectations") I can see

julia> Pkg.add("Expectations")
Resolving package versions...
No Changes to C:\Users\myname\.julia\environments\v1.5\Project.toml
No Changes to C:\Users\myname\.julia\environments\v1.5\Manifest.toml

After that when I try to load

julia> using Expectations

I got these errors.

---

[ Info: Precompiling Expectations [2fe49d83-0758-5602-8f54-1f90ad0d522b]
Cannot open cache file "C:\Users?�의??.julia\compiled\v1.5\Compat\jl_385E.tmp" for writing.
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Compat [34da2185-b29b-5c13-b0c7-acf172513d20] to C:\Users\myname.julia\compiled\v1.5\Compat\GSFWK_q8XAd.ji.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String) at .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at .\loading.jl:1305
[3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1030
[4] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:928
[5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:923
[6] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:380
[7] include(::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:368
[8] top-level scope at none:2
[9] eval at .\boot.jl:347 [inlined]
[10] eval(::Expr) at .\client.jl:467
[11] top-level scope at .\none:3
in expression starting at C:\Users\myname.julia\packages\Expectations\KqWVw\src\Expectations.jl:6
ERROR: Failed to precompile Expectations [2fe49d83-0758-5602-8f54-1f90ad0d522b] to C:\Users\myname.julia\compiled\v1.5\Expectations\r1e2K_q8XAd.ji.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String) at .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at .\loading.jl:1305
[3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1030
[4] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:928
[5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:923

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Similarly, when I try the package Plots, the following error shows up...

julia> using Plots
[ Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]
Cannot open cache file "C:\Users?�의??.julia\compiled\v1.5\Reexport\jl_F5.tmp" for writing.
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Reexport [189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69] to C:\Users\myname.julia\compiled\v1.5\Reexport\bTpYr_q8XAd.ji.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String) at .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at .\loading.jl:1305
[3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1030
[4] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:928
[5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:923
[6] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:380
[7] include(::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:368
[8] top-level scope at none:2
[9] eval at .\boot.jl:347 [inlined]
[10] eval(::Expr) at .\client.jl:467
[11] top-level scope at .\none:3
in expression starting at C:\Users\myname.julia\packages\Plots\lzHOt\src\Plots.jl:9
ERROR: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to C:\Users\myname.julia\compiled\v1.5\Plots\ld3vC_q8XAd.ji.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String) at .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at .\loading.jl:1305
[3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1030
[4] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:928
[5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:923

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I tried all suggestions I can try... Using Atom with Juno, Downgrade Julia version, Delete compile folder and reinstall everything etc. Does anybody know why these issues continuously bring about?

Thank you in advance!

[fredrikekre]

Looks like #38411. Perhaps you can try to upgrade to Julia 1.6.1 which is the latest release?

[altophohe]

Hi, Fredrikekre, thanks for the answer.

Indeed, I tried with Julia 1.6.1 as well and similar problems pop up. I am afraid that the latest version does not seem very compatible with most packages like Plots, Expectations etc. Is it the case?

[altophohe]

Hi, again.

I upgraded the Julia version (1.6.1) on my computer. Again, I got a similar problem.

---

julia> using Plots
[ Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]
Cannot open cache file "C:\Users?�의??.julia\compiled\v1.6\Reexport\jl_CEF3.tmp" for writing.
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Reexport [189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69] to C:\Users\정의영.julia\compiled\v1.6\Reexport\jl_CEF3.tmp.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(s::String)
@ Base .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1360
[3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1306
[4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1021
[5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
@ Base .\loading.jl:914
[6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
@ Base .\loading.jl:901
[7] include
@ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
[8] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1213
[9] top-level scope
@ none:1
[10] eval
@ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
[11] eval(x::Expr)
@ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
[12] top-level scope
@ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\정의영.julia\packages\Plots\lzHOt\src\Plots.jl:1
ERROR: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to C:\Users\정의영.julia\compiled\v1.6\Plots\jl_CCD2.tmp.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(s::String)
@ Base .\error.jl:33
[2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1360
[3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1306
[4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
@ Base .\loading.jl:1021
[5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
@ Base .\loading.jl:914
[6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
@ Base .\loading.jl:901

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Actually, for most of the necessary packages, I come across this kind of issue every time. I am not sure if I might have committed a mistake in installing Julia or VS studio. I am stuck up with the installation and the very beginning process for 4 days...anybody can help me?

[vtjnash]

It seems like something is mangling \정의영\ into ?�의?? and/or sometimes dropping the \ (getting only the middle codepoint correct), though it doesn't appear to have anything too unusual:

julia> transcode(UInt16, a)
3-element Vector{UInt16}:
 0xc815
 0xc758
 0xc601
``

[altophohe]

Thanks. You are right. It works after changing the system user name to English. Thanks a lot!