Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-21 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Mac Livecoders, I have a working solution (alpha stage). For those interested, please contact me off-list Regards, Thierry 2014/1/10 J. Landman Gay : > > On 1/10/14 12:00 PM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: > >> There isn’t any workaround, I guess :/ so, we’ll wait Livecode 7 and >> in the m

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/01/14 17:29, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: It shouldn't be necessary to ask these questions; ASCII went out with the ark, and in this respect Livecode is seriously backward. Yes, one might be tempted to think that the folks at RunRev took our three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Hello Jacque, Thanks for your effort. I suggested it to my customer, they didn’t accept it. They are a bit *dummkopf*, sorry for that but they’re what they are :) Though, I have a dedicated folder for the mobile app in the ftp server. Now, a colleague of mine {web guy} is trying to create a

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/10/14 12:00 PM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: There isn’t any workaround, I guess :/ so, we’ll wait Livecode 7 and in the meantime find a way to dodge customers’ complaints :) I tried several things yesterday and couldn't make it work either. Would it be possible for you to run a script o

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Martin, I’ve tried it, for test purposes of course because it’s no use in iOS; though still no luck. _answer file “select file…” _put it into tFilename _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename _put tFilename & cr & the filename of image 1 into field 1 Results are same, Ascii-255 works fi

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: It shouldn't be necessary to ask these questions; ASCII went out with the ark, and in this respect Livecode is seriously backward. Yes, one might be tempted to think that the folks at RunRev took our three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars and simply went to the beach in the sout

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Martin Baxter
On 10/01/14 02:28, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: > The situation starts to be clarified a little bit. > > First, if *ağaç.txt* opens in Linux as Martin stated but not in OS X and iOS, > then the underlying OS has a big role. > > It seems that in OS X and iOS, Livecode accepts only those chars w

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-10 Thread Richmond
It shouldn't be necessary to ask these questions; ASCII went out with the ark, and in this respect Livecode is seriously backward. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Read as: “resistance is futile, give up!” :) ~ Ender On Jan 10, 2014, 4:38:44, Mark Wieder wrote: I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a trailing space, and nothing I could do would delete the entry. I tried all the low-level hacks I could find. When Windows f

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jan 9, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a > trailing space, and nothing I could do would delete the entry. I tried > all the low-level hacks I could find. When Windows finally died I > didn't bother to reinstall it. I t

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Ender- Thursday, January 9, 2014, 6:28:06 PM, you wrote: > First, if *agaç.txt* opens in Linux as Martin stated but not in > OS X and iOS, then the underlying OS has a big role. I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a trailing space, and nothing I could do would de

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
The situation starts to be clarified a little bit. First, if *ağaç.txt* opens in Linux as Martin stated but not in OS X and iOS, then the underlying OS has a big role. It seems that in OS X and iOS, Livecode accepts only those chars with a unicode hex point up to U+00FF; That’s why *épøtç†.

RE: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread John Dixon
/johndixon/Desktop/épøtç†.png > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:53:59 + > From: mblivec...@harbourhosting.co.uk > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames > > On 09/01/14 23:43, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is th

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
On 09/01/14 23:43, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? > Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”) & “/ağaç.png”* > > _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename > results with an empty image. > >

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks for asking this question Ender. I don't have an answer but will benefit from it as well. Phil Davis On 1/9/14, 3:43 PM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: Hi, Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”

Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Hi, Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”) & “/ağaç.png”* _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename results with an empty image. _set the filename of image 1 to URLEncode(tFilename) same, an em