Bug with diacriticals in folder names

[Richard Gaskin]

Alain Farmer wrote:

> I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine.
> I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but..
> there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals.
>
>
> put getCurrentFolder() & "Acériculture" into myFolder1
> put getCurrentFolder() & "Acericulture" into myFolder2
> answer (there is a folder myFolder1) & "," & (there is a folder myFolder2)
> -- answers false,true
>
> I don't want to rename thousands of folders; Is there a workaround ?
> Btw, I cannot rename them by script, because, according to LiveCode, they don't exist !!!
> Helllllp !?!

Version 6.6.2 predates the extensive work done with implementing Unicode 
throughout LiveCode, which should also take into account characters in 
file paths not well handled by earlier versions of the engine.

You should find these enhancements in v7.0, currently in DP 9 for 
testing, available here:
<http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/>

Note that to accommodate the sweeping scope of changes we've all been 
asking for required a file format change.  So to help test the new 
version while continuing to have the option of possibly working in older 
versions, safest it so make sure you have 6.x-compatible copies as 
backups, and/or use the Save As feature to save out to an older format.

As Kevin has described in his recent blog posts, v7 is the foundation 
for the future of the platform, including many if not most (certainly 
most in terms of scope of effort) of the deep changes we all supported 
with the Kickstarter campaign last year.

So all of us benefit from doing as much of our daily work with the v7 
Developer Preview builds as we possibly can.

After all, what we don't want to happen is to merely hope that the 
testing others do happens to will cover all the areas unique to our app, 
and put off using v7 until after release.  We'll want to make sure v7 
does exactly what we need it to do on release day, and that can happen 
only if we all work with it today.

Please keep us posted if you find this issue remains outstanding in 
v7dp9, and be sure to file a bug report so it can be addressed before dp10:
<http://quality.runrev.com/>

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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