bug#81648: 32.0.50; Running LaTeX on files with non-ASCII chars in the name

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:

> Does the same pdflatex command work at the command line?

Yes, it does:

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$ pdflatex \ä.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.29 (TeX Live 2026) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./ä.tex
LaTeX2e <2026-06-01>
L3 programming layer <2026-08-10>
(/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2025/01/22 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/l3backend-pdftex.def)
(./ä.aux) [1{/usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.
map}] (./ä.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2026/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfon
ts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on ä.pdf (1 page, 12916 bytes).
Transcript written on ä.log.
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The above is with:

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$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.3.15(1)-release (aarch64-apple-darwin25.4.0)
Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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Best, Arash