Re: confused by convert-ly 2.17.5

[Julien Rioux]

On 25/10/2012 4:22 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:
> This is ugly. We need to audit the fix for
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1455 more carefully.
> It affects all python scripts on windows and since it's a GUB fix, all
> versions built from latest GUB master.

A suggested fix is at 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2944

> > in my cmd I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > the following command doesn't accept utf-8 characters in the file name:
> >
> > D:\Data\lytest>convert-ly -e bääh.ly
> > convert-ly.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.17.5
> >
> > convert-ly.py: error: b├Á├Áh.ly: Unable to open file
> > convert-ly.py: error: : Unable to open file
> > convert-ly.py: error: : Unable to open file
> > ...
> > ...
> > convert-ly.py: warning: There were 6 errors.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
>
> The utf-8 characters are handled fine in my tests, but on windows it
> might be a completely different thing. Did it work before 2.17.5?

This should be considered a bug in itself, although not a regression.

--
Julien