Error generating androidTWA package: keytool failed on unicode characters

[ynonra]

I received the following error when generating a package for https://www.tikunkorim.co.il/

Error generating Android package.

Status code: 500

Error: Internal Server Error

Details: Error generating app package: Error: Command failed: keytool -genkeypair -dname "cn=tikun Admin, ou=Engineering, o=תיקון קוראים נוח ובהיר, ולימוד טעמי מקרא והפטרה, c=US" -alias "my-key-alias" -keypass "637kqXPmNXC8" -keystore "/tmp/pwabuilder-cloudapk--25-bk9hx4tcRqf5/signingKey.keystore" -storepass "n6JhhCrfSmfX" -validity 20000 -keyalg RSA

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[JudahGabriel]

Shalom @ynonra

I suspect the issue is that the Android SDK tool, keytool, is having trouble with Hebrew characters as your organization name. As a test, can you try generating your Android app using English letters for the organization name?

In the meanwhile, I'll report this bug to the Google team that owns this piece of the stack.

[JudahGabriel]

@andreban Bubblewrap fails for this guy, with the following error message. Possibly related to unicode support in either Bubblewrap or keytool?

Command failed: keytool -genkeypair -dname "cn=tikun Admin, ou=Engineering, o=תיקון קוראים נוח ובהיר, ולימוד טעמי מקרא והפטרה, c=US" -alias "my-key-alias" -keypass "637kqXPmNXC8" -keystore "/tmp/pwabuilder-cloudapk--25-bk9hx4tcRqf5/signingKey.keystore" -storepass "n6JhhCrfSmfX" -validity 20000 -keyalg RSA

[ynonra]

thanks a lot, i changed all the names to english and it works!

is there a way to edit the files manualy and return the original hebrew names?

[JudahGabriel]

Not that I'm aware of.

You might be glad to know the organization here is used for creating a signing key only. The key is used to sign your Android app package. I don't think the organization is displayed anywhere to end users.

[andreban]

I can confirm those details are not shown to users anywhere.

Anyway, it turns out the problem is the comma in the ou field, as it signalises the end of the field. It's possible to escape that when running keytool, like the following, which works:

keytool -genkeypair -dname "cn=tikun Admin, ou=Engineering, o=תיקון קוראים נוח ובהיר\, ולימוד טעמי מקרא והפטרה, c=US" -alias "my-key-alias" -keypass "637kqXPmNXC8" -keystore "signingKey.keystore" -storepass "n6JhhCrfSmfX" -validity 20000 -keyalg RSA

@JudahGabriel we can either escape this in @bubblewrap/core before running the command or escape it in PWA Builder and in @bubblewrap/cli. I'm happy either way, but might be good to discuss the approach first to avoid escaping twice.

[JudahGabriel]

it turns out the problem is the comma in the ou field

Ah, good catch.

So @ynonra just remove the comma, and you can still use the Hebrew name of your organization.

@andreban yeah, I think it's best to escape this at the lower Bubblewrap level.

[ynonra]

thanks guys!

[andreban]

Filed GoogleChromeLabs/bubblewrap#373 for Bubblewrap