Chinese ProductName Garbled & Chinese ProductName with setupIcon building failed

[dtboy1995]

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Electron Forge version

6.4.1

Electron version

v26.0.0

Operating system

Windows 10

Last known working Electron Forge version

6.4.1

Expected behavior

Chinese characters display normally and are build normally

Actual behavior

Chinese ProductName Garbled & Chinese ProductName with setupIcon building failed

Steps to reproduce

package.json -> "productName": "测试中文名" forge.config.js -> makers -> @electron-forge/maker-squirrel -> config -> { setupIcon: 'setupIcon path' }

ref issue #3176 #2443

Guess it may be related to the Squirrel tool, as the exe name generated under out/{productname}win32-x64/ before the electron forge was made can display Chinese normally

Additional information

No response

[whl88]

Is there a good Samaritan who can fix this bug?

[caiiiac]

测试了几天，终于测试出来怎么打包中文名了，我是打包的linux下的deb包，可以在forge.config.js的文件中修改makers。

makers: [ { name:'@electron-forge/maker-deb'， config:{ name:"demo", productName:"中文名称"， icon:"/src/*.png" } } ]

[kunglin]

same problem in 2025

[iHaroro]

2025年同样存在问题

me too

[yangsengui]

This works for me https://exploratory.io/note/exploratory/Enabling-UTF-8-on-Windows-hYc3yWL0