setupIcon config failed when productName contains chinese character ;Fatal error: Unable to load file

[rosendolu]

Reproduce Steps

Clone this repo https://github.com/rosendolu/electron-app-debug

git clone https://github.com/rosendolu/electron-app-debug
npm i 
npm run make

// forge.config.js
...,
    {
      name: '@electron-forge/maker-squirrel',
      config: {
          // The ICO file to use as the icon for the generated Setup.exe
          setupIcon: path.resolve(__dirname, './icon/app.ico'),
      },
    },

// package.json
...,
  "name": "electron-app",
  "productName":"electron中文",

You will got this error

But if you remove the chinese characters of productName in package.json

// package.json
...,
  "name": "electron-app",
  "productName":"electron",

Or just remove the custom setupIcon conf

// forge.config.js
...,
    {
      name: '@electron-forge/maker-squirrel',
      config: {
          // The ICO file to use as the icon for the generated Setup.exe
          // setupIcon: path.resolve(__dirname, './icon/app.ico'),
      },
    },

Every works well !

As above pic shows , spawn process exit with code 1,but I can`t figure out how to solve it ,any advice would be grateful.

[anaisbetts]

This is a still-open bug in Squirrel.Windows at the moment, I'm not sure that there is any way to fix it at the moment other than by using Roman characters in the name, sorry :(

[siadou]

enable utf-8 on windows can solve this issue. follow the page below.
https://exploratory.io/note/exploratory/Enabling-UTF-8-on-Windows-hYc3yWL0