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Surrogate Pairs Are Not Supported for the Path to the Workstation Installation Directory

Details

A surrogate pair consists of two Unicode code points that together represent a Chinese or Japanese character. If you use a surrogate pair when specifying an installation path for Workstation, the installation fails.

Solution

Do not use surrogate pairs when installing Workstation.

Keywords

ws650

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