Patches item #1572290, was opened at 2006-10-06 13:48 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478072&aid=1572290...
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Category: puredata Group: None
Status: Open Resolution: None
Priority: 8
Private: No Submitted By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Assigned to: Miller Puckette (millerpuckette)
Summary: serious troubles with folders with non-ASCII chars on WinXP
Initial Comment:
On Windows XP, you cannot save a new file to any directory that has non-ASCII characters in it. For example, if someone has an accented E in their username, then their home folder will be in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME, where USERNAME is the name with the accented E.
The work around is to save to the root of C:, then move the file to the directory with the non-ASCII chars. After that, it is possible to save changes. But the only way to open the file is to double-click it and let it open via file associations. File->Open crashes Pd-0.40-2 and nothing happens on Pd-0.39.2-extended-test5.
This has been confirmed on Pd-0.39.2-extended-test5 and Pd-0.40-0, on Windows XP US and Spanish editions.
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2008-05-11 15:48
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=27104 Originator: YES
the problem was that the Tcl internal character encoding was just being sent straight to the pd process without being converted to the current system encoding. I added Tcl_UtfToExternalDString() as an easy way to convert from the Tcl encoding to the current system encoding and it seems to work fine now.
I am raising the priority since it can prevent people from saving. File Added: fix_encoding_bug_1572290-0.41.4.patch
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2006-10-06 13:52
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Here's an example error message when I tried to save a new file:
error: C:/Documents and Settings/hans/Desktop/testbug-üé/Untitled-1.pd: No such file or directory
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