I'm not sure about the quilted issue on windows.. I meant that it would be a problem in general. I have not managed to produce a set to quilt yet.
I stripped the BSB files etc out as you suggested and tried to run a conversion on the whole set and got this output in the converter window.
Code:
C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ1490604.vrt -> C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles/NZ1490604.zxy .................
2021/03/29-23:37:03 creating base tiles for C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ1490604.vrt finished
2021/03/29-23:37:03 creating base tiles for C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ615501.vrt at zoom level 15
2021/03/29-23:37:03 running C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\python\python.exe C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py -c -t C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles -p zxy -z 15 C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ615501.vrt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py", line 1448, in <module>
C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ615501.vrt -> C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles/NZ615501.zxy ....................
main(sys.argv)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py", line 1441, in main
parallel_map(proc_src,sources)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\tiler_functions.py", line 70, in parallel_map
return list(map(func,iterable))
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py", line 1350, in proc_src
cls(src,dest,options).walk_pyramid()
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py", line 779, in walk_pyramid
self.write_tilemap()
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\tiler_tools\gdal_tiler.py", line 931, in write_tilemap
open(os.path.join(self.dest,'tilemap.xml'),'w').write(tilemap_txt)
File "D:\obj\windows-release\37amd64_Release\msi_python\zip_amd64\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
***Converter finished ***
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x96' in position 271: character maps to <undefined>
2021/03/29-23:37:09 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1786, in <module>
main(sys.argv)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1747, in main
generateAllBaseTiles(outdir,mercator)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1332, in generateAllBaseTiles
generateBaseTiles(chartEntry,outdir)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1322, in generateBaseTiles
raise Exception("unable to convert chart "+chartEntry.filename)
Exception: unable to convert chart C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ615501.vrt
ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1786, in <module>
main(sys.argv)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1747, in main
generateAllBaseTiles(outdir,mercator)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1332, in generateAllBaseTiles
generateBaseTiles(chartEntry,outdir)
File "C:\Users\tweed\AppData\Local\avnav\chartconvert\read_charts.py", line 1322, in generateBaseTiles
raise Exception("unable to convert chart "+chartEntry.filename)
Exception: unable to convert chart C:\Users\tweed\AvNavCharts\nz3\work\BSB_ROOT\basetiles\NZ615501.vrt
2021/03/29-23:37:09 ERROR: conversion failed