Cyrillic filenames

Cyrillic filenames

[Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky]

Hi,

This is a question to dear developers: why can't I use cyrillic 
filenames, and even spaces in filenames? It is weird to name Russian 
texts using Latin transliteration.

For example, I'd rather have "песня про зайцев. tex" instead of 
"pesnya_pro_zaicev.tex". Is this possible?

Best,
Vyatcheslav
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Re: Cyrillic filenames

[Hans Hagen]

Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a question to dear developers: why can't I use cyrillic 
> filenames, and even spaces in filenames? It is weird to name Russian 
> texts using Latin transliteration.
> 
> For example, I'd rather have "песня про зайцев. tex" instead of 
> "pesnya_pro_zaicev.tex". Is this possible?

in xetex and luatex that is possible, since they are no longer 8 bit, 
but even then there is the problem of the underlying operating system 
that needs to use the same encoding for filenames as your tex document 
that uses such files (in for instance \input)

You can just try what happens when you use such names (and use "" around 
them).

Hans

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