ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

[Thierry Arbellot]

Yves, Andre,

I don't have Tiger to test mdfind, but if I understand well the 
problem, OS X filenames are UTF8 encoded.
The following function will convert from UTF8 to ANSI, just replace 
"thefilename" with the actual string to decode.
put unidecode(uniencode(thefilename,"utf8"),"ansi")

I hope this helps,
Thierry

On 2005, Aug 21, , at 21:28, Yves COPPE wrote:

>
> 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
>
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