[XeTeX] graphic filename in Chinese

[Jonathan Kew]

On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:03, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:

> I.e., it is not a problem of XeTeX, but a problem of Windows.

Well, no, it's a problem of the windows implementation of xetex.

XeTeX converts filenames from its internal utf-16 to utf-8 in order to  
pass them to the standard posix i/o functions like fopen(). This works  
fine on OS X; it apparently works on some Linux/*BSD systems too,  
although I suspect it may depend on system locale settings; but  
apparently it doesn't work on Windows.

I guess xetex needs to either query the system to find out what  
encoding to use for filenames like this, or else replace the use of  
fopen() and similar functions with Unicode-based APIs. That'd be a bit  
of a pain, I imagine.

JK