the files functions doesn't work correctly with diacritical characters

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

I think i found the problem:

The font (ms sans serif) of the fields in the revVariableWatcher doesn't 
show the diacriticals as expected!!!
The Tahoma font works fine... well, sometimes...

set the directory to fld "path"
put the files into fld "log"  -- works great at least in a tahoma field.

Which doesn't explain why the filename comparisons dont work yet but the 
files functions works correctly at least! 

I changed all the revVariableWatcher's field to Tahoma but the shell's 
output was still unreadable!

So it's the shell! But in the shell (cmd.exe) dir displays correctly !!! 
;)

Next step was to change the encoding of the shell from the standard 850 
western1 codes to 1252. Because i found out
meanwhile that when piped to a file dir didn't show the text as expected 
(sorry rev if i blamed this on you)!!! 

And with chcp 1252 it did work as expected!

But then wabam, I can't get shell to do the right thing now!

I need to tell the shell that it needs to do first a chcp 1252 and then in 
the same shell call, a dir of the folder but ...

Only the first line of the shell gets evaluated it seems! This is a 
serious limitation in this case... And a speed problem since
the shell can't be done in rev but needs to be sent via a start.exe then 
piped out then reinjected in rev in the right chr set...

And I thought rev was easy all over! If anyone is interested in multiline 
shell calls in rev let me know, i'll make a bugzilla...

cheers
Xa

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 20/06/2007 13:42:56:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have this file scanner that does some file listings and which needs to 

> compare outputs with a shell dir.exe command (in windows 2003).
> The shell is too slow but it is the only one that shows me which files 
are 
> DHSM based (offline storage off the main storage).
> 
> The problem i found is that the shell based dir output works correctly 
but 
> the runrev "the files" functions doesn't.
> 
> The runrev output doesn't translate correctly the diacritical characters 

> such as umlauts, or other german/french style characters.
> 
> Has anyone seen this and better resolved it? Is there already a bugzilla 

> for this?
> 
> For the funny part, when i ask in rev if the file is there with the 
> shell's file name output, rev does recognize it but i do a comparison of 

> strings between
> the shell and rev's the file output, they do not match!!! Meaning that 
the 
> files functions is not compliant with windows?
> 
> The shell's codepage is 850 in case anyone wondered. Is there anyway to 
> change the codepage of rev's output?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> 
> Regards,
> Xavier
> 
> 
> 
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