TEXMFHOME on Windows (for users with long names, diacritics or spaces in their names)
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sun May 26 00:02:09 CEST 2024
Further tests showed that kpsewhich appears to be coding its output
in the system code page, which on my system (and probably a default
Windows system in France) is CP1252
Other developers (Akira, Takuji, others) have added various things to
kpathsea/kpsewhich for Windows code pages. I know nothing about it, I
just see references in the code. (In Windows-only parts.) Perhaps they
can elucidate. I think their primary goal was to support utf8. -k
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