Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

[John Dixon]

Hi Ender...

Just did the same as Martin, but with an image file named : épøtç†.png

on mouseUp
   answer file ""
   if it is not empty then
      set the filename of image 1 to it
      put the filename of image 1 into fld 1
   end if
end mouseUp

filepath returned in fld 1 : /Users/johndixon/Desktop/épøtç†.png

> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:53:59 +0000
> From: mblivecode at harbourhosting.co.uk
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames
> 
> On 09/01/14 23:43, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote:
> > Hi,  
> > 
> > Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars?  
> > Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”) & “/ağaç.png”*
> > 
> > _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename  
> > results with an empty image.
> > 
> > _set the filename of image 1 to URLEncode(tFilename)  
> > same, an empty image.
> > I even tried this:
> > _set the filename of image 1 to uniEncode(tFilename, “utf8”)
> > I know it’s kinda stupid but it was a desperate attempt.  
> > 
> > The thing is I can’t control the filenames.  
> > There are thousands of images in the server
> > and different people {editors} upload them.
> > Some of those so-called computer literate editors insist to name the files with non-ascii chars.
> > Since the underlying OS or the server doesn’t complain
> > {see, utf8 became a common standard for years if not decades}.
> > they don’t notice the error and I end up with the headache.
> > 
> > 
> > So, is there any workaround to make Livecode accept those files?  
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for all your help...  
> > 
> > Best,  
> > 
> > ~ Ender 
> 
> Hopefully someone has a better way than this, but I have just opened a
> file that I had named ağaç.txt
> 
> I scripted answer file, selected the file and then used the returned
> file path string directly to open the file.
> 
> Answer file seemingly returns the single byte string of which the path
> actually consists, and while you would get nonsense if you displayed
> that unmodified, it seems to work here to open the file.
> 
> You can maybe see what it returns:
> 
> answer file "select a file"
> put it
> 
> If that works for you, you might be able to store that string somewhere
> invisible for future reuse, you would just need to acquire it initially
> through the answer file command or the files.
> 
> I think this is called cheating, and may not work in all cases/on all
> platforms/your situation, perhaps.
> 
> I'm using Linux.
> 
> Martin
> 
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