[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60306] Error running files in a folder containing letters that aren't encoded in system locale

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #60306 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Postponed              
                 Summary: Error running files in a folder containing letter
"č" => Error running files in a folder containing letters that aren't encoded
in system locale

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Follow-up Comment #20:

"CP1252" doesn't have a code point for "č". But it encodes "š" at code point
0x9A:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

I might work if you changed your system locale to one that encodes all (or
most) characters you'd like to use. Maybe "CP1250" would better match your
requirements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250

For instructions how to change the system locale on Windows, see e.g. here:
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/locale.html

A "real" fix in Octave will probably be to move away from gnulib's
`canonicalize_file_name` replacements on Windows and use
`std::filesystem::canonical` from C++17 STL instead. But we can't do that yet
because we still support compilers that (only) know C++11.

Marking as postponed.



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