[tex-live] TL2018: Problems with filenames

Thu May 10 22:38:46 CEST 2018

David Carlisle wrote:
> [I]t appears that windows is using an 8-bit encoding ...

A quick test suggests that David is correct.  I created a web page in utf-8 encoding using Macromedia Dreamweaver, split it into two parts, then appended the string "Begrüßung" to the first part :

> echo Begrüßung>> part-1.html

  Dreamweaver spotted that the file had been updated externally, asked if it should re-load it, and on being told "Yes", displayed :

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>Begr��ung

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Philip Taylor