[tex-live] texlive2008 install-tl fails on Windows XP Chinese traditional

Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sat Oct 25 21:19:03 CEST 2008


Just by way of observation, I occasionally receive
files that end up in directories with Japanese
characters in their names, and most (but not quite
all) Windows programs are unable to access them.

** Phil.
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Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

> Windows sometimes has inexplicable file access problems, so I am not
> sure whether folder names really are the problem. I would like to
> know whether anybody with a traditional Chinese Windows either did
> or did not have this problem.
> 
> I am also curious whether short names, such as displayed in the
> fourth column of a `dir /x' command, can contain non-ascii
> characters in a CJK windows.


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