Re: LaTeX > PDF blocked by extender chars in filename

[Eduardo Mercovich <eduardo@mercovich.net>]

Dear Felipe.

> This somehow happens to be problematic to me too [...] However, 
> hyperlinks (that is: those between "[[" and "]]") demand percent 
> encoding/escaping. But, it seems that the Org-to-LaTeX exporter 
> isn't translating the hyperlinks to something LaTeX understands 
> (LaTeX expects literal characters, and "%" is the start of a 
> comment).

Great finding, this seems like a possible culprit...

> Also, as a final note, the default grffile inclusion in the 
> Org-to-LaTeX (and to PDF also) doesn't include the necessary 
> options to make LaTeX accept spaces and accents in file names. 
> That's OK for compatibility reasons, and if you do want to force 
> it to accept such special characters, use the grffilesetup LaTeX 
> command with the proper grffile options.

I didn't knew about grffile, thanks. 
So, does this means that to support extended ascii chars we need 
to include this package? 

> Personally, I like to go the safest route: remove special 
> characters from file names whenever I don't need them. I 
> generally replace spaces with underscores, and leave letters 
> without accent. This also avoids having to deal with the broken 
> percent decoding/unescaping when doing Org-to-LaTeX exports.

I also do that usually. I found this case because a special char 
(ñ) escaped me. ;)

However, given the widespread use of extended ascii chars in many 
languages around the world (and the excellent support that emacs 
in particular and the free/libre software movement in general are 
proud to have for them) it would be good to have something as this 
working without glitches. Also, it may be a showstopper for 
newbies since it may take quite a while to find what is happening. 
After all, if there is no problem with my OS, why would it be an 
issue with emacs?

Except programming that I don't know how to do, I would gladly do 
what it takes to help with this. :)

Thanks Nicolas and Felipe for your attention... :D

-- 
eduardo mercovich

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