Hello Mike,
> Am 01.10.2018 um 05:24 schrieb Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>:
>
> On 9/30/2018 5:45 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>> I am still struggling with loading images with filenames on windows. (My
>> test environment is windows 7, 32 bit)
>> I now bypass lua file system to build a file list, so I have all filenames
>> encoded as UTF-8. Now I try to pass a filename to
>> img.scan{...}
>> But as I understand, Windows is not happy about the UTF8 filenames, so what
>> should I do?
>
> I probably misunderstand what you're doing, but Windows filenames are encoded
> as UTF-16, not UTF-8. I would guess that you'd want to convert your UTF-8
> encoded filenames to UTF-16 before passing them to some function (although
> maybe it would be even nicer if that img.scan{} function would do the
> conversion itself).
I have just learned that LuaTeX on TeXlive does not support these non-ascii
filename:
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-October/042484.html
Which really is a pity.
Patrick
