On 2020-03-06 9:13 am, Torsten Hämmerle wrote:
Jean ABOU SAMRA wrote
You likely have a special character in the name of your file.
Windows handles this poorly and LilyPond (actually Python,
behind the scenes) can't do much for this. Try removing
special characters from the file name, it should solve
your problem.
I can confirm this (Win 10).
And what's even worse: while one can avoid special characters in
filenames,
it is not possible to specify languages containing special characters,
as in
I just won't work in Windows, neither on the command line nor via
Frescobaldi:
<http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/fresco-language-xml.png>
While I am not an apologist for any operating system, I fear folks are
being far too quick to blame Windows here.
Like any current operating system concerned with internationalization,
Windows and NTFS handles and supports filenames with Unicode characters
just fine. There are only a few characters and filenames that are
reserved [1] by the file system and operating system, but those are
ASCII-only.
The attached image shows a file with Greek and Cyrillic characters in
its name. In all shells, I used tab-completion to enter the filename in
the prompt. The only visual quirks are due to some shells not using the
right codepage, but that is an application-level issue. For instance,
CMD has its roots in an older era, so I would not expect it to handle
UTF-8 content. On the other hand, I was surprised by Powershell's
default encoding.
As my experience with Python is very limited, I will make no attempt to
comment on whether the this thread's original issue is due to the
musicxml2ly script, the Frescobaldi program, or the Python
language/runtime itself. But rest assured, a properly-written program
can most definitely interface with the Windows API and file system to
allow for Unicode characters in file paths.
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[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations
-- Aaron Hill
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