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

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:06:51PM +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Some testing
> 
> 
> C:\Users\briáøæålongbriáøæåvv\Documents\Test>makeglossaries hest
> makeglossaries version 2.05 (2012-11-12)
> added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
> xindy  -L english  -I xindy -M "hest" -t "hest.glg" -o "hest.gls" "hest.glo"
> 
> *** - PARSE-NAMESTRING: syntax error in filename "C:/Users/bri >'┼longbri >'┼vv\
> \"
>       at position 13
> 
> If I manually type the line starting with xindy (that is the xindy call made by makeglossaries), I get almost the same error:
> 
> 
> C:\Users\briáøæålongbriáøæåvv\Documents\Test>xindy -L english -I xindy -M hest -
> t hest.glg -o hest.gls hest.glo
> 
> *** - PARSE-NAMESTRING: syntax error in filename "C:/Users/briáøæålongbriáøæåvv\
> \"
>       at position 15
> Break 1 [3]>

Such problems are avoided if a program just uses relative
directories, as most TeX-related utilities do.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg