[OS X TeX] path names with umlauts

[RA Friedrich Vosberg]

Am 20.03.2012 um 12:40 schrieb Peter Weidenmueller:

> german umlaut should NEVER be used in information technology.
> a system patch could make it very hard to access the files / folders.
> you should use ue instead of ü, ae instead of ä, etc
> additional special chars should be avoided, too (space, komma)
> it is better to use '_'. 
> ascii-char is THE standard, at information-technology. 

Hmm. I'll give Apple's way of localization a try:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/LocalizingPathnames.html

What do you think about this approach?

Kind regards, Friedrich
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