issue_link

#106601

Commit Hash

dcbdff0

Target

stable

Impacted Users

Windows developers using specific locales

Impact Description

This impacts development: flutter doctor, flutter run, and flutter build do not work on Windows for certain locales.

Only Chinese and Japanese locales are known to be affected by this issue. However, it is likely that other locales are also affected by this.

Workaround

Yes, workarounds include:

1. Downgrade Visual Studio to an unaffected version
2. Switch your locale to English
3. Patch your Visual Studio installation and replace vswhere.exe with an unreleased build: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases

Risk

low

Test Coverage

yes

Validation Steps

This fix is covered by unit tests. It can also be verified manually by running flutter doctor on Windows.