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Codex Issues / #13575

Error in Install from Microsoft Store with path unicode chars

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 5, 2026 by stjeloma Closed Mar 9, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

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What subscription do you have?

Chat GPT Teams

What platform is your computer?

Windows 11

What issue are you seeing?

Error javascript in Install from Microsoft Store with path unicode chars

<img width="824" height="551" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3d3089ad-758e-4a6f-aa4e-9198092b2fa9" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Download and install

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #13553

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stjeloma · 5 months ago

More details to help reproduce:

  • Windows 11, installed Codex from Microsoft Store.
  • My Windows user profile contains accented characters: C:\Users\JesúsLópezMartín\
  • Codex crashes on startup with "A JavaScript error occurred in the main process" and tries to create:

C:\Users\Jes?sL?pezMart?n\.codex\sqlite
(note the corrupted path with '?' instead of Unicode accents)

  • I can create the expected folder manually without any permission issues:

mkdir "%USERPROFILE%\.codex\sqlite" -> works
So this looks like a Unicode/encoding bug in how Codex resolves USERPROFILE on Windows.

Codex package/version (from error dialog / installed apps): OpenAI.Codex_26.304.1528.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0
Tried: Repair/Reset app, renaming .codex, junction mklink /J to C:\codexdata — no change.

stjeloma · 5 months ago

Looks like duplicate of #13553, but I’m on Microsoft Store build OpenAI.Codex_26.304.1528.0... and the failing path becomes Jes?s...