[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Patches-1572290 ] serious troubles with folders with non-ASCII chars on WinXP

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Patches item #1572290, was opened at 2006-10-06 13:48
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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

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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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