Re: Couple of problems with current SVN

[Eric Wasylishen]

P.S.,

It seems that glib interpretes filenames as utf-8 by default, but like GNUstep, 
has an environment variable for configuring that.

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#g-get-filename-charsets

-Eric

On 2012-06-02, at 10:14 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote:

> Hey German,
> I can reproduce the problem where directories with accented characters show 
> up incorrectly in the open/save panels. I created a directory with an 
> accented "é" using gnome, and it shows up in the gnustep open panel as "Å©".
> 
> I debugged this, and basically it's a configuration issue: the filenames 
> returned by the posix readdir() function are being interpreted using 
> +[NSString defaultCStringEncoding] , which is Latin-1 by default unless the 
> GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING  environment var is set.
> 
> Try running:
> "export GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING=NSUTF8StringEncoding"
> before Ink, and see if it fixes the problem - it did for me.
> 
> Maybe we should change +[NSString defaultCStringEncoding] to 
> NSUTF8StringEncoding? 
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> 
> On 2012-06-02, at 8:01 PM, Germán A. Arias wrote:
> 
>> Well, to investigate the problem of the directories names in panels
>> Open/Save, I added in NSBrowser.m:
>> 
>> NSLog(@"Path: %@", path);
>> 
>> at line 460. And:
>> 
>> NSLog(@"SubStrings: %@", [subStrings description]);
>> 
>> at line 481. Now run Ink and then the Open panel in a directory that
>> contains the letter "á". This is the output:
>> 
>> 2012-06-02 17:47:45.806 Ink[18900] Path: /home/german/Imágenes
>> 2012-06-02 17:47:45.927 Ink[18900] SubStrings: (home, german, "Im\U00C3
>> \U00A1genes")
>> 
>> This is not what I would expect for the method
>> -componentsSeparatedByString:. (This is the method to make the
>> "subStrings" array in line 578.).
>> 
>> 
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