Re: Updater and Windows API 1113 error

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:08:56 -0700 (PDT) schrieb clembibou:

> Hi,
> 
> since I last updated MikTeX 2.9 (which also updated the "updater"
> miktex-update_admin.exe to version 2.9.4214), the updater does not work
> anymore and a pop up appears with "Windows API error 1113: No mapping for
> the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page" (in French,
> since I use Vista French edition).
> 
> Contrary to other users with accentuated version of Windows encountering
> this kind of problem "fc-cache -verbose" run smoothly, and all MikTeX
> commands (latex, pdflatex, Yap, settings, package manager (synchronizes, but
> no update capability)...) still work fine. Only the updater does not work...
> which may be a problem to get a patched version of it in the future...
> 
> Note that I use MikTeX 2.9 since its release (and before, v2.7) on the same
> computer without ever encountering this problem before.
> 
> Any workaround or solution to this problem?

At first try if you can update if you use the command line 

mpm --update     or      mpm --admin --update

Then make a bug report with as much details as possible (OS,
version, locale) 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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