Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

Mark Powell mark_powell at symantec.com
Tue Jan 24 14:04:21 EST 2012


Alex, I have had this problem since the Rev 2.0 days and as far as I can tell it is not fixed.  In LC, I can literally "get the files" and immediately ask "is there a file (line whatever of it)" and I get a "doesn't exist" if line whatever of its contains a violater character in the file name.  This happens with me for all Czech characters in the high ASCII range, and I have no workaround, either through terminal or through native LC.  I am on Windows, not MacOS.  It was a deal-breaker on an app I was developing a couple years back.

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I'm not sure if this is a LC question, or an OSX question, or a unicode 
question, or ... or what.

I have a folder with funny characters (:-) in its name, and that seems 
to cause a problem in LC.




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