qgis-dev 3.27.0-Master crashes during startup in some circumstances

[andreaerdna]

QGIS 3.27.0-Master (qgis-dev-3.27.0-286-fc5faa84bf-1) crashes on startup (during "Setting up the GUI"), when launched from the shortcut link "QGIS Desktop 3.27.0 (Nightly)" in the start menu, if there is a file or a folder with the name containing non-ASCII characters (like e.g. è, é, æ, ø, å, ...) in the user "Documents" directory.

Note that the QGIS shortcut links in the start menu contain the user "Documents" folder path in the "Start in" property.

QGIS 3.26.1 and QGIS 3.22.9 in the same OSGeo4W installation don't suffer from such issue.

See ​https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/49507 (and probably also ​https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/49546).

[jef]

Probably introduced by ​QGIS #49128. Which crashes calling pdal::PluginManager<pdal::Stage>::loadAll() with

Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFEA24A4FD9 in qgis-dev-bin.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::range_error at memory location 0x000000C6588F5670.

originating from PDAL's ​FileUtils.cpp:89 as the string is apparently in local 8-bit encoding (ie. CP1252 here) and not UTF-8.

Looks like that upstream PDAL issue was fixed in 2.4 by ​PDAL #3764. As updating PDAL to 2.4 would require rebuilding all QGIS versions PDAL #3764 was backported to 2.3 for the time being (ie. next QGIS point release)

Fixed in ​8f79e2fdeb4

[andreaerdna]

Confirmed fixed updating installed pdal* packages to version 2.3-8.