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

[Lars Madsen]

Hi Akira

I'm just using the frozen TL12, not the pretest

Replacing xindy.pl with the one from svn, did not seem to make a difference.

I'm still getting

*** - PARSE-NAMESTRING: syntax error in filename
      "C:/Users/bri >'┼longbri >'┼vv\\" at position 13
Break 1 [3]>

It is correct that we at some point mentioned an error that seemed to come from a problem regarding the placement of tmpfiles. But I think that particular problem has been reduced to a UNC path issue.


On an interesting side note: I just downloaded Emacs 24.3 for windows to this user. It cannot even start. On my normal account: no problems.

So xindy is not the only one with problems regarding these usernames



/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf


________________________________________
From: Akira Kakuto [kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp]
Sent: 02 May 2013 15:04
To: Lars Madsen; Denis Bitouzé
Cc: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: [tex-live] User names too longs or with diacritics on Windows

Dear Lars Madsen,

> hest.tex:
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{makeidx}
> \makeindex
> \begin{document}
> test\index{test}
> \printindex
> \end{document}
>
> after pdflatex, run
>
> texindy hest.idx
>
> and I get
>
> C:\Users\briáøæålongbriáøæåvv\Documents\Test>texindy hest.idx

> *** - PARSE-NAMESTRING: syntax error in filename
>     "C:/Users/bri >'┼longbri >'┼vv\\" at position 13

Please confirm that your xindy.pl is the same as
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl
and try
texindy -d keep_tmpfiles hest.idx

If you are using the above xindy.pl, then temporary files
must be created in the current directory.

In the former xindy.pl, there were problems in
temporary file names in windows, as pointed out by Urlike.

Thanks,
Akira