ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

[Yves COPPE]

Le 21-août-05 à 21:20, Andre Garzia a écrit :

> Yves,
>
> I am trying here with accents and special chars... it appears that  
> mdfind returns a mixed string.  Like I have this file called  
> çedilha (which is wrong portuguese, but serves right for our  
> experiments). mdfind will return a string using with the ç encoded  
> in what I think is more than two bytes and the rest of the filename  
> in good plain text. So using uniDecode to reduce from twobytes  
> representation will screw the rest of the filename, using uniEncode  
> to put the rest of the string up to two bytes will also not work  
> for it will re-encode the special chars...
>
> I am a little lost too, need more expert help.
>
> Andre
>


Hi Andre,

I'm happy to see that the problem does exist, non only on my computer.

So I'm sure someone on the list will find the correction.


Greetings.

Yves COPPE
yvescoppe at skynet.be