[Gambas-user] Possible bug in Gambas

[Werner]

Kari Laine wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ron_1st <ronstk at ...239...> wrote:
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>> What should stand on the ??, (welche buchstaben?)
>>     
>
> My german is almost nonexistent. Those files were collected years back when
> archiving usenet for good VB6 examples.
>
>
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>> You are reading a windows disk/mount and this is mount as iso8159(-15)
>> character set
>> this is wrong for bare gambas.
>> you need characterset conversion like utf8 to get the correct text
>> or mount the windows disk as utf8 when posible.
>>
>> In short, you have a characterset conversion problem.
>>
>> Hi Ron_1st,
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>
> Yep I know but shouldn't Gambas cope with it more nicely than just crash :-)
>
> Those files ended up in Linux-filesystem by me copying them from Windows
> NTFS-partition mounted without specifying charset.
> As a brute force method I now made a filter which renames files to 7-bit
> ascii. I would not want to do this but really don't understand what else I
> could do.
> I would like to support all locales with genisoimage. I don't really
> understand how different locales work in Gambas. What functions are able to
> handle UTF-8 in Gambas?
> Any good web-sites where I could start learning things?
>
> If I understand right those names are illegal in my locale because for
> example ls|wc complains.
>
> Any help highly appreciated
>
> Best Regards
> Kari Laine
>   
They stand for umlauts ä ö ü from what I deduct from the file names.

Best Regards
Werner