Bug with diacriticals in folder names

[Bob Sneidar]

Sure! It’s called the, “Apple OS”. ;-) 

Not sure about the graphical stuff tho’. Also, not sure how you would go about installing it. 

Bob S


On Aug 18, 2014, at 11:02 , Alain Farmer <alain_farmer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey! I found an easy workaround to the problem of diacriticals in folder names.
> I got the list of paths by recursively getting all of the folders, including the diacritical ones I had trouble with.
> The folders function lists these folders, but "there is a folder" reported that diacritical ones did not exist.
> In LiveCode 6.6.2 [script editor], LC reports that there is no such folder when the path contains diacritical(s).
> But when I store the paths into a file, encoded as UTF8, then read the file, ALL of the folders with diacriticals EXIST!Thank you, Mark, for pointing out that it is a unicode issue.
> Then I got lucky as I persevered.
> How gratifying! :-))
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, August 18, 2014 12:16:57 AM, Alain Farmer <alain_farmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark.
> 
> 
> On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
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> 
> Mark Wieder wrote:
>> ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with
>> diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode
>> 
> transliterations.
> 
> Thanks for confirming that, Mark.
> 
> One more down.  Now I can focus on figuring out why font sizes seem 
> inappropriately large on Linux for layouts that look pretty consistent 
> on Mac and Win (are you seeing that?)....
> 
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