Re: [MiKTeX] Windows API error 1113

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

Am Sun, 08 May 2011 10:33:35 +0100 schrieb José Carlos Santos:

>>> 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.

I have seen this message previously (e.g in the bug report ID
3198946) and while there isn't a decisive proof yet I got the
impression that it related to localized windows of languages with
"accents" (the bug report eg is from a french). 

Find in the UserConfig or CommonConfig root in fontconfig/config the
.conf files (fonts.conf, localfonts.conf etc). Check if they contain
pathes with non-ASCII-chars. Try out if fc-cache works if you
uncomment such pathes. 

Another possibility where non-ASCII-chars can "intrude" are your
fonts. Try to remove from localfonts.conf the system font folder.

(Make backups of the files before starting to change them).

-- 
Ulrike Fischer