[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60306] Error running files in a folder containing letter "č"

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #60306 (project octave):

                Category:                    None => Interpreter            
              Item Group:                    None => Unexpected Error or
Warning
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   6.2.0 => dev                    
                 Summary:            no such file => Error running files in a
folder containing letter "č"

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Follow-up Comment #14:

Thanks Dmitri for transcribing the problematic letters from the image to plain
text. With that, I can reproduce the issue with Octave 6.2. But it also
doesn't work with Octave 6.1, Octave 5.2, or Octave 4.4.2 for me. So - at
least for me - it's not a regression.

There seems to be something special going on on a lower level with the letter
"č" in paths on Windows: When I save a file in a folder containing that
letter and try to open it with a double click (default program for that file
extension is Matlab R2016a on the system I tested with), I also get an error
message from Matlab saying that the file couldn't be found. In that error
message the letter "č" also is replaced with the letter "c". Similarly, the
letter "š" (and fwiw some umlaut characters) are retained also in the Matlab
error message.
Also in Matlab R2016a:

>> cd('D:\SVN\Octave\bug60306_non-ASCII\hü računara\fgäööü škola
računara')
>> test_file
D:\SVN\Octave\bug60306_non-ASCII\hü raunara\fgäööü škola
raunara\test_file.m: Can't open file.
 
>> 


Who would have guessed that we are "compatible" to that level. ;-)

With some luck, someone already ran into the same issue and described a
solution.

Does that letter have a special name (like "umlaut a" for the letter "ä")?
That might make it easier searching for a solution.


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