Moderator Note: Known Bug Summary Thank you everyone who has chimed in and helps clarify this issue! The general problem is that when a Windows Username includes special characters (so an apostrophe ' or a non-ASCII character like é) it can break the commands Local uses to communicate with the MySQL…

Hi, just letting you know that this bug still persists and site creation fails with an error if password contains “&”. [image]

Hello @ooksanen - Thank you, I’ll flag this with the Local engineering team. With a password without that character & are you still able to move forward? Sam

Yes @sambrockway , that’s correct. If I have an ampersand in my password, the site install will fail with the error I posted above and the .local address will require me to do a manual WP installation (“Test Site” in the screenshot below). If I do a manual install, WP accepts my password with ampers…

Hi there @ooksanen , I checked in with the team and this issue is basically the same issue as this related bug: Unable to provision site due to special characters in Windows username Basically, Local uses wp-cli to help with creating WordPress sites. Because of how the Windows terminal handles sp…

Thanks for the update @sambrockway !

@sambrockway something caught my eye when I opened the local-lightning.log file: It shows the user data path as the %%userDataPath%% variable: [image] I’m not sure if I’m right but I believe this is a variable set by Local, not by Windows or anything. Now, what if we (end users) were able to over…

There seems to be a problem if any of the following have non alphanumeric characters website name admin user name admin user password as a workround keep it alphanumeric

Merci beaucoup pour la réponse !!

What issue or error are you experiencing? Hi, I cant set up local on my computer. I am sending ascreenshot attached. Could you help what to do? [local] What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc System Details Local Version: Operating Sys…

Since there is issue with special characters ongoing, please just check everything (website name, username, password) and warn user to correct it before we received error.

Special characters not supported on Windows username/password

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Special characters not supported on Windows username/password

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