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

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2013-05-01 at 14:31:18 +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

 > 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.

But doesn't the problem still exists when kpathsea expands TEXMFHOME?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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