[tex-live] User names too longs or with diacritics on Windows

[Philip TAYLOR]

Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> I don't for one second pretend to understand Akira-san's program
> (the C language has, for me, always been completely opaque
> and will undoubtedly remain so for the rest of my life) but
> at first sight it would appear to be using the ISO-8859-1
> character set (i.e., ASCII plus some Western European
> characters in the upper 128).  Is it not the case that
> Windows operates internally entirely in Unicode, and
> should (therefore) the example not also explicitly
> use Unicode so as to replicate the effects of how a normal
> Windows user would create files and/or directories
> containing accented characters ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/dd317748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
refers.

** Phil.