AW: long (?) filenames in players

[Klaus Major]

Hi Thomas,

> Hi Klaus,
>
> is it really "Schlockche"? That sounds weird.

it is, weird indeed, but that is "Kölsch Platt",
the "mundart" (slang/idiom) spoken in "Cologne" :-D

> But apart from this, if the system (whoever is doing the  
> interpretation of the file path) understands the %20 encoding for  
> space, you could try the same encoding for the extended charset:
>
>   put empty into newString
>   repeat for each character i in orgTextString
>     if charToNum(i) > 127 then
>       put "%"& baseConvert(charToNum(i),10,16) after newString
>     else put i after newString
>   end repeat
>   answer newString

Sounds good, i will surely give it a try!

But in the meantime i use my own workaround by using a temporary SMIL  
file,
see my post from yesterday.

Thanks a lot.

> All the best
> Thomas
>
>
> --
> Thomas Fischer
> Salzburg/Gottingen

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de