isaacs/npm — Issue #2084: Install fails silently if home directory or --prefix has accents
Author: satazor
Created: 2012-01-24 12:31:13+00:00
State: open

My windows user is André and npm silently fails to install packages in André/LocalData/Roaming/...

If I use --prefix and specify c:\test it works as expected.
If I use --prefix and specify c:\andré it fails as mencioned.