We're trying to fix the long-standing issues with unicode path names. We've now come as far as having a test build available at http://download.tuxfamily.org/makehuman ... -win32.zip
We hope this will solve the problems arising in these two scenarios:
* A windows user has a username with unicode characters
* A windows user has placed Makehuman in a directory with unicode characters somewhere in the absolute full path
It would be helpful to get this stress tested a bit. To help out, download the build and try to make it fail by placing it in directories named with the weirdest characters you can think up. In the best of worlds it should work even if the directory name consist of a mix of emojis and chinese signs (but I haven't tested that specifically).
The relevant issue is discussed at http://bugtracker.makehumancommunity.org/issues/1029. If you managed to make MH crash, please post the name of the directory either there or as a comment to this post.