Re: [MiKTeX] Windows API error 1113

[José C. S. <jcs...@fc...>]

On 08-05-2011 9:21, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

>> I've had some problems lately with the MiKTeX fonts in one of my
>> computers and I decided to uninstall MiKTeX and to re-install it. It
>> failed. When I was trying to re-install, I got this error message:
>
>> fc-cache.EXE:
>> Windows API error 1113: No mapping for the Unicode character exists in
>> the target multi-byte code page.
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Well as I already wrote in a comment to your bug report:
>
> "Regarding the fc-cache error: Try to run fc-cache --verbose.
> Perhaps this tells you if fc-cache doesn't like a configuration
> entry.

If I do that then I get the message "fc-cache: Windows API error 1113: 
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte 
code page."

> (My guess is that you are using accented chars in your user
> name.)"

No, I am not. And I am not using spaces either.

> Apart from this: fc-cache is only relevant for xetex. The rest of
> the installation should be fine.

It isn't. The MiKTeX binaries were not added to the Windows path and no 
MiKTeX folder was added to the Start Menu. The installation process 
stopped at that point. The final lines of the MiKTeX Setup Report were:

fc-cache.EXE: Windows API error 1113: No mapping for the Unicode 
character exists in the target multi-byte code page.

mkfntmap.EXE: The operation failed for some reason.
mkfntmap.EXE: Data: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\fc-cache.EXE
initexmf.exe: The operation failed for some reason.
initexmf.exe: Data: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\mkfntmap.EXE

An error occurred:
   source file: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Process.cpp
   source line: 296
   message: The operation failed for some reason.
   info: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex/bin\initexmf.exe

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos