<p>In <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1095#discussion_r68813257">src/spawn.c</a>:</p>
<pre style='color:#555'>> @@ -568,11 +571,52 @@ static gboolean spawn_async_with_pipes(const gchar *working_directory, const gch
>            envp++;
>    }
>  
> -  failure = spawn_create_process_with_pipes(command->str, working_directory,
> +  // convert working directory into locale encoding
> +  if (g_utf8_validate(working_directory, -1, NULL))
> +  {
> +          locale_working_directory = g_locale_from_utf8(working_directory, -1, NULL, NULL, &gerror);
> +          if (gerror) {
> +                  /* TODO use the code below post-1.28 as it introduces a new string
> +                  gchar *msg = g_strdup_printf(
> +                          _("Failed to convert working directory into locale encoding: %s"), gerror->message);
> +                  g_set_error_literal(error, gerror->domain, gerror->code, msg);
</pre>
<p>that's overly complex, cuold use the non-literal verison of <code>g_set_error()</code></p>

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