Tested the latest stable version by installing in multiple folders in the normal manner and also in a portable installation. Tested by running MH and creating a character and then saving the character with different names.
For general procedure see:
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13980#p37375Names used for save:
female_test
TéléTélé
ру́сскийязы́к
åäöüñé
åäöüûñ
Téléскийяäöü
Summary of ResultsWINDOWS XP SP3NORMAL INSTALL SUCCESSinstalled in:
X:\MakeHuman
X:\MakeHumanåäöüñé
X:\MakeHumanåäöüûñ
X:\MakeHumanTéléTélé
Models were saved, for load they all appeared in the File Chooser and loaded sucessfully.
NORMAL INSTALL FAILUREinstalled in:
X:\TéléTélé
X:\ру́сскийязы́к
makehuman.exe starts and terminates, nothing displayed, nothing created in My Documents
PORTABLE INSTALL SUCCESSinstalled in:
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanPortable
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanAnother
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanTest
Models were saved, for load they all appeared in the File Chooser and loaded sucessfully.
PORTABLE INSTALL FAILUREinstalled in:
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanåäöüñé
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanåäöüûñ
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanTéléTélé
X:\PortableApps\ру́сскийязы́к
X:\PortableApps\TéléTélé
MakeHumanPortable.exe launcher starts, makehuman.exe starts, makehuman.exe terminates, MakeHumanPortable.exe launcher terminates
nothing is displayed, MakeHuman does not create anything in the portable user data folder
WINDOWS 8.1NORMAL INSTALL SUCCESSinstalled in:
X:\MakeHuman
X:\MakeHumanåäöüñé
X:\MakeHumanåäöüûñ
X:\MakeHumanTéléTélé
Models were saved, for load they all appeared in the File Chooser and loaded sucessfully.
NORMAL INSTALL FAILUREinstalled in:
X:\ру́сскийязы́к
makehuman.exe starts and terminates, nothing displayed, nothing created in Documents
X:\TéléTélé
makehuman.exe starts, error popup (TéléTélé.png), close error and terminates, nothing created in Documents
PORTABLE INSTALL SUCCESSinstalled in:
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanPortable
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanAnother
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanTest
Models were saved, for load they all appeared in the File Chooser and loaded sucessfully.
PORTABLE INSTALL FAILUREinstalled in:
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanåäöüñé
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanåäöüûñ
X:\PortableApps\MakeHumanTéléTélé
X:\PortableApps\ру́сскийязы́к
MakeHumanPortable.exe starts, makehuman.exe starts, makehuman.exe terminates, MakeHumanPortable.exe terminates, nothing created in user's data folder, no error displays
X:\PortableApps\TéléTélé
MakeHumanPortable.exe starts, makehuman.exe starts, error popup (portableTéléTélé.png), close error and makehuman.exe terminates, MakeHumanPortable.exe terminates, nothing created in user's data folder
Since the failures do not seem to create a log, not sure how to troubleshoot the failures further.