[wookiefriseur]

That's strange, because Minion already starts with UTF-8:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Minion\app\Minion.cfg:

[JVMOptions]
-Xmx128m
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

If it was just a problem with CP-1252 and UTF-8, it should output question marks instead of replacing "ü" with "Ä%".


I have some ideas that do not involve renaming your user. But they are all ugly. Let's try the easy one first:

1. uninstall minion (check "Delete config files")
2. start powershell as admin
3. run following command to create a symbolic link
   • New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target "C:\Users\Jürgen" -Path "C:\Users\" -Name "Juergen"
   • this creates a link to your user directory next to it
   • to minion it looks like the real user directory
4. install Minion, but replace the "ü" in the suggested installation path with "ue"
   • Should result in: "C:\Users\Juergen\AppData\Local\Minion"
5. run Minion
6. manually pick the AddOn path from the Symlink instead of your real directory
   • should be something like: "C:\Users\Juergen\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns"
7. wait a while until Minion has loaded your AddOns
   • you may have to restart Minion, if it doesn't do anything for 10 minutes
   • always use the Symlink path if you have to point it to the AddOn folder again

This assumes that you have a standard Documents folder path and did not change your system much.


What to watch out for:

1. do NOT create a new user named "Juergen"
2. if you rename "Jürgen" in the future, the symlink will point to nothing
3. Minion might get the user directory in other ways internally which might use the "Jürgen" path again, so if it breaks for certain actions (like backups) it might be because of that
4. once Minion 4 is released it might require a different solution or might not have this problem at all