POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : file name bug? : Re: file name bug? Server Time
2 Nov 2024 11:23:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: file name bug?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 30 Nov 2001 03:21:24
Message: <3C07418A.928EBC6A@gmx.de>
Bonsai wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if this was already reported nor if it is a know limitation of
> POV-Ray...
> 
> POV-Ray doesn't like file names with German umlauts. I named a file

> 
> [...]
> 
> POV-Ray 3.1g has the same behaviour...
> 
> If this was reported once, please ignore this bug report....

It is a known limitation that's difficult to overcome with current
operating systems if you want to maintain portability.  It's not a good
idea anyway to use such characters, most people don't even recognize this
limitation since they never consider such file names.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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