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

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #60306 (project octave):

Well, "umlaut a" isn't called "umlaut a" in German either (because it is a
different letter with a distinct sound from "a"). But it's still called
"umlaut a" internationally. Afaict, "č" is called "small Latin letter c with
caron":
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+010D

Thanks again Dmitri for that information.

In the meantime, I believe I narrowed the issue down to
`canonicalize_file_name`. With the current folder set to a path with these
letters, I see the following:

>> canonicalize_file_name (".")
ans = D:\SVN\Octave\bug60306_non-ASCII\hü racunara\fgäööü škola
racunara


The actual path is 'D:/SVN/Octave/bug60306_non-ASCII/hü računara/fgäööü
škola računara'.

It looks like the result of gnulib's `canonicalize_file_name` replacements on
Windows is wrong for me in this case.

We have the following note in the source code:

      // On Windows, convert to locale charset before passing to
      // canonicalize_file_name, and convert back to UTF-8 after that.

      // FIXME: This only allows non-ASCII characters in the file or path
that
      // can be encoded in the locale charset.
      // Consider replacing this with std::filesystem::canonical once we
allow
      // using C++17.


@Tijana: What does `__locale_charset__` return on your system?


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