'the files' and 'the folders' and diacriticals

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Sat Jan 26 20:04:48 EST 2008


Viktoras, having got the filename, is it possible to actially do  
anything with the file, ie. open, read, write etc.? I've had no luck  
with this (and a confirmation from RunRev that Rev can't use unicode  
filenames in OS X).

Best,

Mark

On 26 Jan 2008, at 20:37, viktoras didziulis wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> forwarding the original posts on non-english file names by Kenji  
> Kojima (2008-01-16) that describe a possible solution of your  
> problem :-):
>
> put "cd ~/Desktop" &cr& "ls" into tScript
> set the unicodeText of fld 1 to uniencode(shell(tScript),utf8)
>
> The first line was shell command got list names of files in working  
> directory. You got UTF8 filenames. Then it's converted to UTF16 and  
> set the test field 1.
>
> Best regards
> Viktoras
>
> Mark E. Powell wrote:
>> Want to give this one last swag before throwing in the towel. If I  
>> want to use shell() to point a command line application to the  
>> folder below.
>>
>> C:\říkáme\
>>
>> How do I do it?
>>
>> I am currently running 2.8.0.  Perhaps something has changed in  
>> later versions that improves Rev's ability to preserve  
>> diacriticals in file and folder names when using 'the files' and  
>> 'the folders'?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Mark
>>
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