[PD-dev] UTF-8 problems on Windows

[Roman Haefeli]

Hi Hans

I probably have nothing useful to add, but just last week I got a report
from someone using a patch of mine on Windows, experiencing troubles
with opening certain sound files. It turned out, that it was also
related to non-ASCII characters in the name of those files. Pd didn't
crash, though, but the sound files didn't load. I hadn't have the
opportunity to look at it myself yet (no access to a win comp), but I'm
glad to see it confirmed. I'd be happy to see it fixed, though probably
my only contribution would be limited to testing.

Roman


On Mit, 2012-12-05 at 23:14 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> There is a problem on Windows that has me stumped.  If you open a file with a non-ASCII character in the name or path using "pd -open" it works fine.  If you open it using File -> Open, then it freezes Pd.  If you print the filename to the Pd window right before its sent to Pd, it prints properly:
> 
> C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,coüüümma.pd
> 
> But running "pd.com -d 3" shows:
> 
> pd open comma\,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/pd/Desktop;
> open: C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory
> comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory
> 
> So somewhere in the network receiving the unicode is going wrong, but only on Windows.  Its a bad bug for anyone who uses non-ASCII letters on Windows. Any ideas?
> 
> .hc
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