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The texstudio-4.8.8-win-portable-qt6 closes when opening pdf if there is an accent in the path to texstudio.exe

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#4,160 opened on Aug 27, 2025

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Description

Environment

  • TeXstudio: TeXstudio 4.8.8 (git 4.8.8)
  • Qt Version 6.9.1, compiled with Qt 6.9.1 R
  • OS: Windows 11
  • TeX distribution: TeX Live 2025

Unzip the following file to a folder that has an accented letter in its path. https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/releases/download/4.8.8/texstudio-4.8.8-win-portable-qt6.zip

Start texstudio.exe. File / New Write some simple compilable LaTeX code, e.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
text
\end{document}

Compile (F6) View (F7)

In the last step, TeXstudio closes.

The following version has not had this bug yet: https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/releases/download/4.8.6/texstudio-4.8.6-win-portable-qt6.zip

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Research direction
Check the PDF viewer code path in TeXstudio that handles file paths, especially when they contain accented characters. Look for Unicode handling or path escaping issues in Qt6.
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cpp
Domain
desktop
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