[tex-live] Problems with non-7bit characters in filename

Josef Kleber josef.kleber at gmx.de
Mon Jul 7 18:31:16 CEST 2014


Dear Akira,

Am 07.07.2014 15:17, schrieb Akira Kakuto:
> Dear Josef,
>
>> At least TeXLive's texlua expects utf-8 and only utf-8 for command
>> line options, which is a problem on a standard Windows system.
>
> Try
> http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/current/luatex-dev-w32.tar.xz
>
> ( Copy only two files, lua52.dll and luatex.dll, in the bin
>   directory into the bin/win32 directory in TeX Live )
>
> set COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING=utf8
> texlua -cmdx gmimage.lua ...
>
> Note that -cmdx (or --cmdx) should be the first option.

Yes, i can confirm this works like a charm. Would be really good, if 
this could be integrated into the offical release. Expecting 
utf-8-encoded command line options on a ansi system really looks more 
like a bug than just a "problem".

Josef





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