Action manifest not found if folder contains japanese characters

[smitdylan2001]

I have a Unity project for a Japanese audience and when I load the project from within a folder with Japanese characters, I get the error 'The action manifest for [project] was not found'. The controls don't work properly because of this (HMD does track but no input
The Japanese characters appear as question marks in the error within SteamVR.

Unity 2020.3.15f1 LTS SteamVR v2.7

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