Maybe try a test with a folder / path with UTF-8 characters on your system. As IOhannes said, Pd should be able to handle it Ok.

I'd also recommend they turn on Verbose and open Pd again so they can send you the whole text outputted with Pd showing which paths it's trying. If we see broken strings there, then we'll have a better clue.

On Oct 27, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:21:40 +0100 From: Maximiliano Estudies <maxiestudies@gmail.com mailto:maxiestudies@gmail.com> To: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> Subject: Re: [PD] Windows in Chinese, problem with paths Message-ID: <CAF358wTwakZ=h6z2i5oOPBJ6EvKUo-mMebmyr5iet1cXNdgT0A@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAF358wTwakZ=h6z2i5oOPBJ6EvKUo-mMebmyr5iet1cXNdgT0A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Dear IOhannes,

thank you for your answer. Here is the screenshot they sent me. https://postimg.cc/GB6z9Wb0 https://postimg.cc/GB6z9Wb0 I'll also try to find out the character encoding and codepage they are using, the thing is, I don't talk directly to the museum technicians in charge of the setup, there is a representative there that translates all the communication and he doesn't have much experience with the subject, so I'm not sure if it will work. I asked them to put all the abstractions and files in the same folder and that worked. They also have access to a computer running MacOS for testing, and the original patch with subfolders worked there without problems.

Does the absolute path to an abstraction play a role even if using [declare -path]? and how is this different from having both patches in the same folder?

Cheers, Maxi

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