Codex on Windows fails to install / start
OpenAI Developer Community
March 19, 2026
Codex on Windows 11 fails to start probably because of scandinavian characters in the users name path.
Being from Finland my name actually includes a scandinavian character “ä”
”Codex failed to start.”
”EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir ‘C:\Users\usernam�\\.codex\sqlite’
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