Re: lilypond-book on windows

[Julien Rioux]

On 11/01/2012 7:46 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On 2012-01-11 15:12, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > One problem that exists here for sure for windows is the definition of
> > cmd which include "LC_ALL=C texi2pdf ...". LC_ALL is an environment
> > variable that sets the locale. I think this is here to ensure that the
> > output from texi2pdf is in English and can be parsed easily.
> No, texi2dvi has a nasty bug that will show in certain locales (e.g. in
> German), where any call to texi2dvi will fail, because one regexp is
> incorrect in that case. For that reason, we need to forc texi2dvi to use
> C locale. Search the mailing list a few months back for a short discussion.
>
>
> > Setting environment variables in this way does not work on windows.
> > Instead one might add env=something as an argument to the
> > subprocess.Popen call.
>
> Okay, if you find a way that works in Linux, too, feel free to fix it.

Something like this could work (untested):
cmd = '%s -c -o %s %s' % (global_options.texinfo_program, outfile, tmpfile)
run_var = os.environ.copy()
run_var['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=run_var, ...)

> Cheers,
> Reinhold



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Julien