TEXMFHOME on Windows (for users with long names, diacritics or spaces in their names)

[Denis Bitouzé]

Hi Siep,

Le 24/05/24 à 21h57, Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live a écrit :

> I have spent considerable time on how to handle non-ascii directory
> paths under Windows.

Thanks for that!

> Maybe the principal problem is that the default 'codepage' of the
> command-prompt is non-ascii.

Couldn't Powershell be useful here?

> And if a script sets the codepage to utf-8, then this setting will NOT
> be inherited by child processes.  And it requires administrative
> permissions to set the default codepage to utf-8.

I see (almost ;)

> https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html#nonascii contains a few not
> quite satisfactory workarounds.

OK, good to know.

> Sorry.

You're very welcome: many thanks for the hard work already done!
-- 
Denis