Special characters (ü,Ü,ß,...) support when using Office-URI-Schemas

Special characters (ü,Ü,ß,...) support when using Office-URI-Schemas
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 Oct 14 2021
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When using the Office schemas (https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office/client-developer/office-uri-schemes) in Chrome on a blank page to open a file, PowerPoint can't read/open the file as it fails to read the special character. Special characters of interest are the german Umlaute (ä,Ä,ö,Ö,ü,Ü,ß).

 

Example call would be: ms-powerpoint:ofv|u|file://C:/some_path/Test_Ü.pptx

 

The path included in the error message is then: C:*some_path*\Test_%C3%9C.pptx so there is probably some encoding issue.

 

This feature should be added as it brings value to german users and makes workarounds redundant.