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

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le vendredi 12/04/13 à 22h29,
karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) a écrit :

> Problems with non-TL scripts to be reported to their authors ...

Okay, I was not sure who was responsible of this.

>   C:/Users/CŽÚcile/texmf
> 
> What should it return?  Looks like all kpse is doing is returning the
> directory as given ...

I guess kpse is returning the right path but it is unusable: for
instance, files located in

  C:/Users/Cécile/texmf/tex/latex

won't be found by TeX as it is looking them in:

  C:/Users/CŽÚcile/texmf/tex/latex

In order to be able to use a personal TEXMF directory, this user had to
create another TEXMFHOME, for instance by (command line for Windows
users is often a pain!):

  tlmgr conf texmf TEXMFHOME C:/texmf

Hence my suggestion to make if possible TL able to deal with long
and/or containing diacritics <user name>, and, if not, to warn the user
during installation, at least by suggesting him to use another
TEXMFHOME than the default one (C:/texmf instead of C:/Users/<user
name>/texmf).
-- 
Denis