On 3/11/07, MartÃn Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Excuse me, but this is not that bittornado doesn't understand encodings, it's that bittornado-gui (console is ok) dies when a non-ascii character is seen, with no workaround possible, since you don't control the filename of a seeded file. If it would only ignore or mishandle them this will be a wishlist. But this is a real, normal bug to me.
I think it's a matter of the developer's choice whether trying to do something unsupported by the program prints an error or just fails. As it's almost impossible to determine what people might do with a program that isn't supported, I think it would be quite difficult to anticipate all of them and code nice error messages for when they occur. As each instance of bittornado-gui is only intended for a single torrent download, I don't think it's necessary for it to anything other than die when given an unsupported format. Therefore, I think it is a wishlist item. Either way, a check of the BTS would show that there are many occurrences of this bug, and obviously a decision has been chosen to make them wishlist, so opening a new bug is not necessary. No worries though, I'd rather get extra bug reports than miss a needed one. I just get a little annoyed with this issue as there have been many related to it. Thanks, Cameron
