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

[Zdenek Wagner]

2013/4/26 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
> Something like that
>
> I'm notorious for using the word 'hest' (Danish for horse) as a test word, filename what ever.
>
I know the meaning. I have read a few H. C. Andersen's fairy tales in
Danish. I have all books of Eventyr og historier but have no time to
read all of them.
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Zdenek Wagner [zdenek.wagner at gmail.com]
> Sent: 25 April 2013 16:01
> To: Denis Bitouzé
> Cc: Lars Madsen; tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] User names too longs or with diacritics on Windows
>
> 2013/4/25 Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze at wanadoo.fr>:
>> Le jeudi 25/04/13 à 12h51,
>> Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> a écrit :
>>
>>> That one fails here as well
>>>
>>> (glossaries loaded with xindy option)
>>>
>>> C:\Users\briáøæålongbriáøæåvv\Documents\Test>makeglossaries hest
>>> makeglossaries version 2.05 (2012-11-12)
>>> added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
>>> xindy  -L english  -I xindy -M "hest" -t "hest.glg" -o "hest.gls"
>>> "hest.glo"
>>>
>>> *** - PARSE-NAMESTRING: syntax error in filename
>>> "C:/Users/bri >'┼longbri >'┼vv\ \"
>>>       at position 13
>>> x
>>
> It seems that xindy does not use relative file names but tries to find
> the full file name. If I remember well, xindy is not unicode aware and
> uses just bytes, that's why the language modules are compiled and
> unicode is not directly used for sorting. The system returns the path
> name in UTF-8 but xindy does not understand it.
>
> (The file name reminds me Lille Klaus saying: "Hip, hip, alle mine heste.")
>
>> Also from the command line, or if the file is opened via the 'Open
>> file' item?
>> --
>> Denis
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
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