Re: utf-8 file name in lilypond

[Hans Åberg]

> On 30 Jan 2019, at 20:27, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 16:42:22 (+0000), MING TSANG wrote:
>> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=197
>> 
>> I copy the above snippet and name it test_file-name_info.ly and run with 
>> fracobaldi3.01 + lilypond2.19.82 it produces desired file infomation.
>> Then I rename the file as test_中文.ly (UTF-8 Chinese characters) and execute 
>> and the following error occurs:
>> Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.82 [test_中文.ly]...
>> warning: cannot find file: `C:/Users/yming/Documents/test_??.ly'
>> 
>> fatal error: failed files: "C:/Users/yming/Documents/test_??.ly"
>> 
>> Exited with return code 1.
>> 
>> Question: Window 10 support UTF-8 file name and lilypond does not. Is there 
>> any work around?
> 
> That snippet puts the filename into the score, doesn't it?
> Have you ever had this working or is this effectively a repeat of
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00325.html

FYI, on MacOS, the error is as below: Guile makes a translation error. If the 
second CJK character is deleted from the filename, then it compiles without 
this error.


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$ lilypond 'test_中文.ly'
GNU LilyPond 2.19.82
Processing `test_中文.ly'
Parsing...
test_中文.ly:10:2: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning 
here
#
 (define siz      (object->string (stat:size (stat filen))))
No such file or directory: "test_中?\\x87.ly"
test_中文.ly:14:2: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning 
here
#
 (define modt     (stat:mtime (stat filen)))
No such file or directory: "test_中?\\x87.ly"
test_中文.ly:15:2: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning 
here
#
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