[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Patches-3601392 ] Mac OS X: portmidi UTF-8 device names rather than blank

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Patches item #3601392, was opened at 2013-01-18 08:13
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Category: puredata
Group: bugfix
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Assigned to: Miller Puckette (millerpuckette)
Summary: Mac OS X: portmidi UTF-8 device names rather than blank

Initial Comment:
Right now, if there are extended unicode characters (i.e. Japanese) in the name of a MIDI device, portmidi just returns a blank string ("").  In Mac OS X 10.7, the names of the default MIDI devices are now localized, so that means for all Mac OS X systems in Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Korean, etc. the MIDI names will all be blank.  The attached patch fixes this by using the Mac OS X CFString API to fetch a full UTF-8 version of the name. 

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>Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2013-01-18 08:13

Message:
I forgot to mention, I also forwarded this patch to Roger Dannenberg for
inclusion in portmidi itself.

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