dotnet tool install failed when home directory has non ASCII character with MSBuild Error

Steps to reproduce

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-outdated Or dotnet tool install --global dotnet-outdated --version 1.0.0

Expected behavior

dotnet tool is installed successfully

Actual behavior

MSBUILD : error MSB1006: Property is not valid.

The tool package could not be restored. Tool ‘dotnet-outdated’ failed to install. This failure may have been caused by:

• You are attempting to install a preview release and did not use the --version option to specify the version.
• A package by this name was found, but it was not a .NET Core tool.
• The required NuGet feed cannot be accessed, perhaps because of an Internet connection problem.
• You mistyped the name of the tool.

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json): Version: 2.1.300 Commit: adab45bf0c

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.17134 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x64 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.300\

Host (useful for support): Version: 2.1.0 Commit: caa7b7e2ba

.NET Core SDKs installed: 2.1.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.102 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.103 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.104 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.200 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.201 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 2.1.300 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.5 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs: https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

[peterhuene]

@pherbel could you try this as a possible workaround?

> mkdir C:\ToolsTemp
> dotnet tool install dotnet-outdated --tool-path C:\ToolsTemp
> xcopy C:\ToolsTemp C:\Users\PéterHerbel\.dotnet\tools /E
> rmdir /s C:\ToolsTemp

You may then use dotnet tool list -g and dotnet tool uninstall -g dotnet-outdated.

[wli3]

Log more error case Pass "ab ; semi . period , comma" will error with

Error Message: Microsoft.DotNet.ToolPackage.ToolPackageException : The tool package could not be restored.c:\work\cli\bin\2\win-x64\dotnet\sdk\2.1.301-preview-008906\15.0\Microsoft.Common.props(61,35): error MSB4115: The “HasTrailingSlash” function only accepts a scalar value, but its argument “$(MSBuildProjectExtensionsPath)” evaluates to “c:\work\cli\bin\2\win-x64\test\artifacts\ab ; semi . period , comma\f2oiwymg.yel.stage\ctxxm3e0.fia” which is not a scalar value. [C:\Users\wul\AppData\Local\Temp\pkogc221.jgz\giwtguht.0ng.csproj]

; is not escaped

Pass \"ab ; semi . period , comma\" will error with

error MSB1006: Property is not valid.Switch: semi . period For switch syntax, type “MSBuild /help”

comma kills it…