Re: [AUCTeX] Headache: filenames with Umlaut under Windows, backward search gives error

[Arash Esbati]

Hi Alexander,

AW <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs 26.3, installed not long ago on Win 8.1. Texlive 2019, up to date.

Emacs 27.0.50, Win10, TL19 up-to-date.

> I'd like to get rid of the need to replace an Umlaut (äöüÄÖÜ) and "ß" in 
> filenames. One of the reasons is a naming convention for files in my job.
> For outgoing letters the filename includes the name of the recipient and in 
> Germany the name often includes an Umlaut. 
>
> But whatever I try, with an Umlaut in the file name the way back from the PDF 
> into the *.tex file using synctex doesn' work under Windows 8.1, while under 
> Linux (openSuse Leap 15.1) there is no problem. Under Windows, if I click 
> into 
> the PDF, I get an error.

I think this depends on the way you launch Emacs.  I did:

1)  Open a DOS-box with `Windows-key cmd RET'
2)  Make sure Emacs, Sumatrapdf and TL in the PATH
3)  Enter `runemacs RET'
4)  `C-x C-f ÜmläutÖ-täst.tex RET' and yanked your test file
5)  `C-c C-t C-s' to enable `TeX-source-correlate-mode'
6)  `C-c C-c' to compile and `C-c C-v' to view

and Synctex works for me without a problem (both ways).  What is your workflow?

I didn't test it with pdf-tools as I don't have it installed.

Best, Arash