Reproduction steps:
1. Create a new project in a path that contains Non_ASCII characters
2. Open P4V
3. In the “Server:” section write localhost:1666
4. In the “User:” section, click on the New… button and fill in everything that is required, and press Save (email doesn’t need to be valid)
5. In the “Workspace” section, click on the New… button and change “Workspace name:” to something simple
6. Change the “Workspace root:” path to the newly created project folder and press ok
7. A window might pop up notifying that folder is not empty. Click on the No button
8. In the Open Connection window select OK and a created connection with project files should appear
9. In the Editor, go to Edit > Project Settings > Version Control
10. Change “Mode” to Perforce and fill in the Username; Password; Workspace; Server with the information used in server creation.
11. Click on Connect

Expected result: Connected to the Perforce server
Actual result: “Not Connected. Couldn’t fstat the project root directory…” error

Reproducible with: 2020.3.47f1, 2021.3.22f1, 2022.2.14f1, 2023.1.0b11, 2023.2.0a9

Reproducible on: Windows 10