Re: Updater and Windows API 1113 error

Dear Ulrike,

Thanks for your quick reply!
Executing mpm in command line leaded to the same error message (now
appearing in the Dos window).
But, I found a way to solve the problem: download miktex-update_admin.exe 
from my laptop (a  recent version from May before I updated it on my
workstation) and execute it. It worked fine. The updated MikTex updater as
of today does not have my reported problem... 

But pdflatex now fails:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file
C:/Users/Cl├®ment/Documents/Tex/articles/vortex/fig_dens.pdf): xpdf: reading
PDF image failed
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!)

Yes the path has an accent (and the "fig_dens.pdf" figure is in fact in the
same directory as the TeX source)! Note that "Clément" appears instead as
"Cl├®ment"...

It worked well before but not now... If I copy the entire directory "vortex"
where my TeX source file and figures are to C:\, and pdflatex works fine
again. So recent updates of MikTex seems to have trouble to work with
accentuated path. Note that, strangely enough, pdftex and latex are not
plagued by the same problem, and fc-cache -v does not report any problem.

Hope that this problem will be resolved in a future update.
Best regards

Clément (with a damn accent!)


Ulrike Fischer-2 wrote:
> 
> 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) 
> 
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> Ulrike Fischer 
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