> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:42:14 +0000 > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 05:07:32PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Do you know if TeX distributions for Windows do any handling of filename > > > encodings? > > > > I never used non-ASCII variant of TeX (XeTeX, I guess?) on Windows, so > > I don't know, sorry. > > It's standard TeX that processes bytes with values from 0 up to 255. Bytes > 128 to 255 are non-ASCII. So this issue could arise even with the regular, > 8-bit TeX.
If so, I think the Windows port of TeX/Web2c does nothing special for non-ASCII characters, it just uses them as-is. Which means the non-ASCII characters of the current system locale are seamlessly supported by using them in their encoded form (per the current system codepage), but characters outside of that cannot be used.
