[tex-live] luaotfload and UNC paths

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:59:38AM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On w32, lualatex does not work from a TL installation on a UNC path.
> Partial output from mkluatexfontdb -vvv --update:
> 
> luaotfload | db : Scanning directory //VBITMUIS/lan/aps/TeXLive/2013/texmf-dist/
> fonts/opentypeluaotfload | db : Scanning directory //VBITMUIS/lan/aps/TeXLive/20
> 13/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype
> 
> luaotfload | db : 466 font files detectedluaotfload | db : 466 font files detect
> ed
> 
> luaotfload | db : Loading font ΓÇ£/vbitmuis/lan/aps/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/font
> s/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheroscn-bold.otfΓÇ¥luaotfload | db : Loading f
> ont ΓÇ£/vbitmuis/lan/aps/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/
> texgyreheroscn-bold.otfΓÇ¥
> \\VBITMUIS\lan\aps\TeXLive\2013\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:614: ...texmf-dist/tex/l
> uatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-database.lua:1201: attempt to index field '?' (a nil
>  value)
> 
> I see funny characters ΓÇ£/vbitmuis/... at the start of a UNC path,
> which suggests that something goes wrong with normalizing the path.

Well, the funny characters are probably intended as quotes. Remains
the fact that an initial slash went missing.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg