Invalid char set error when trying to batch convert files

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Invalid char set error when trying to batch convert files - Zentian - 05-29-2022

I'm trying to batch convert some images and am getting an invalid char set error when I do. I'm on Windows 10 and I'm using.

myconverter.scr in %AppData%/Roaming/Gimp/2.10/scripts/

Code:

(define (myconvert in_filename out_filename)

    (let* (

            (image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE in_filename in_filename)))

            (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image)))

        )

        (file-heif-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable out_filename out_filename 0 0)

    )

)

then a .bat file

Code:

 for /r %%i in (*.jpg) ; do "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\gimp-2.10.exe" -i -b '(myconvert "%%i" "%%i.HEIF")' -b '(gimp-quit 0)' ; done

It looks like it's able to open the image, but then prints out

** (gimp-2.10.exe:21188): WARNING **: 19:22:33.507: Invalid charset: `InvalidCharsetId'
batch command executed successfully
batch command executed successfully

Does anyone know what the issue could be?

RE: Invalid char set error when trying to batch convert files - Ofnuts - 05-30-2022

Any non-ASCII characters in the name? Or possibly in the path to the directory where you work?

RE: Invalid char set error when trying to batch convert files - Zentian - 05-30-2022

Nope. It seems the warning may be benign though. I thought the warning was what was causing my script to hang, but that wasn't it. Turns out, it didn't like the single quotes, which I was using because escaping the double quotes didn't appear to be working. But what was actually happening was %%i evaluates to a path that contains \ which needed to be escaped. Not sure how to do that, so I just echoed all the file paths into a file, did a find replace on \ to \\, and did

Code:

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (files.txt) do (

  "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\gimp-console-2.10.exe" -c -d -i -b "(myconvert \"%%i\" \"%%i.HEIC\")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)"

 )

which seems to run now.