Re: [GWhere-discussion] character set

[Jarkor]

Hi everybody.....

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From: "Zero - GWhere" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [GWhere-discussion] character set


> Hi list,
>
>
> > I want to know how the charset are used when scanning CDs,
> > and how will them handled in the future.
> > I think that ASCII charset is used (used in DOS for example)
> > but when I scan CD's containing ANSI charset (used in window$)
> > some characters are converted to ASCII....and others not.
> > For example, words containing the char "á" ar converted to "ß" .
> > (letter a accentuated converted to greek letter "beta")
> > Other letters are also converted.
> At time, the charset used for scanning or saving catalog is the same
> that one of your system.
> We are working on this problem with Luis. I'm not a expert about string
> encoding but I believe that UTF-8 or UTF-16 could solve our problem. If
> someone on the mailing have the solution, we'll be happy!! :-)
>
I'll be very happy too if anyone knows something about this........

>
> > Now I'm looking at the originals, and Directories and files
> > containing the folowing chars: "é", "í", "ú" are not included when
scanning
> > the disc.
> I did't know this bug. I will check it.
>
Ok.....I posted this because they are not even there with chars changed, the
scanned files/dirs with that chars are not present........

>
> > In the last years I try to not use this characters anymore, but
> > sometimes they're already included in CD's I have (That's because
> > I speak Spanish and in my country people use this chars a lot).
> True, in France we have the same problem. And I think that lot of users
> should have this problem. I will working on because it is a critical
> problem. :-(
>
Yes, maybe a lot of users will have problems with this........

>
> > Maybe this can be a problem when someone scan a CD and then
> > looks for a file inside that CD........gwhere wouldn't find it.
> It is sure!!
>
>
> > Also I noted that when scanning a Multisession CD, the size information
> > of the dics is obtained only from the last session recorded, then the
> > size is not informed correctly, and with total size of scanned Cds
> > the same happens.
> This problem occures under win32 version. I'm searching a solution, your
> reported bug was added in the BUGS list.
>
Well, another reason to know that m$ sucks........Anyway sometimes we need
to work under win32 because of the propietary windoz-only software.
Seems I'll scan all my CD's under linux :-)

>
> > Sorry for my English....I speak Spanish.
> Do not worry you, I'm not better than you...
>
The idea is that we can understand ourselves...
:-)

>
> Thanks very much for your great analyse and the bugs report,
> I keep you informed about all points above.
>
Thanks a lot to give us this excelent program, and go ahead with
the development....I'll help as much as I can.

>
> Best regards,
>

Same to all the people in the discussion,
Jarkor.

> Zero
> Maintainer,
>
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