Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me?
925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work 934062 win32: international characters in home path 1052307 Saving fails because of UTF-8 Error
In generall, the steps to check these are
1) run a version of Inkscape that is belived to have the bug 2) try to reproduce the bug 3) report if it was reproduceable or not 4) once the bug is being reproduced, update to a version of Inkscape that should have it fixed 5) try to reproduce the bug the same way as worked for step 2 6) report if it is still reproduceable.
With that in mind, I mainly need to get people to verify the bug via steps 1 through 3. Getting them checked on Windows 95/98/ME and also on Windows NT/2K/XP is helpful, as they are very different bases.
Thanks, Jon
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:49:14PM -0400, jon@...18... wrote:
- try to reproduce the bug
Can anyone give me a crash-course (har har) in setting up utf-8 character paths? I found the localization options for changing languages in windows, but I'm not sure how to generate non-ascii characters.
I'd be happy to do testing under w2k if I knew how to create the test case. ;)
Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:49:14PM -0400, jon@...18... wrote:
- try to reproduce the bug
Can anyone give me a crash-course (har har) in setting up utf-8 character paths? I found the localization options for changing languages in windows, but I'm not sure how to generate non-ascii characters.
I'd be happy to do testing under w2k if I knew how to create the test case. ;)
In general... use the character map accessory. It's under Start|Programs|Accessories|System tools or some such. Remember to switch to advanced view.
Oh, here's the first Google hit on it: http://www.dewassoc.com/support/win2000/windows_2000_character_map.htm
Windows CodePage-1252 is "Windows Western".
ASCII has values from 0 through 127. Latin-1 has values form 0 through 255
The first 128 Latin-1 values are the same as ASCII. The first 256 Unicode values are the same as Latin-1
Windows 1252 is the same as Latin-1 *except* for the 32 characters from $80 through $9F. Here's a chart of 1252 http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
So the test cases should go
ASCII (0-127) Latin-1 ($9F-$FF) Windows Western ($80-$9F) Unicode ($100 and up, except for those in Windows Western)
Cyrillic might be good for Unicode. Japanese is also, if your fonts show it.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:41:05 -0700 From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> To: Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> Cc: Inkscape devel list inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:49:14PM -0400, jon@...18... wrote:
- try to reproduce the bug
Can anyone give me a crash-course (har har) in setting up utf-8 character paths? I found the localization options for changing languages in windows, but I'm not sure how to generate non-ascii characters.
I'd be happy to do testing under w2k if I knew how to create the test case. ;)
In general... use the character map accessory. It's under Start|Programs|Accessories|System tools or some such. Remember to switch to advanced view.
From the Start Menu choose the "Run..." Dialog and type 'charmap' (wihotut
the quotes.)
Sometimes you gotta love that Microsoft uses simple reasonably logical names for their software.
- Alan
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 jon@...18... wrote:
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:49:14 -0400 (EDT) From: jon@...18... To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Inkscape devel list inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me?
I'm suffering Windows XP (XP == Windows 2000 + even more useless CRUD) today solely for the purpose of doing some Inkscape testing. (Damn thing is forcing me to use Windows Media Player just to play a CD, bloated yuck.)
sourceforge doesn't include a search by ID like bugzilla which is rather annoying so in case anyone else is willing to help here are direct links to the reports.
925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=925033&gro...
I'm hoping Inserting a few unusual characters using 'charmap' will be enough to test this.
934062 win32: international characters in home path
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=934062&gro...
I wont be able to test this one.
1052307 Saving fails because of UTF-8 Error
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1052307&gr...
In generall, the steps to check these are
- run a version of Inkscape that is belived to have the bug
http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/win32/LATEST.zip
When it done downloading I'll test it, the connection is pretty slow unfortunately (estimated time is 1 hour 56 minutes, and it is unlikely that the bottleneck is at this end, and for a change Internet explorer doesn't seem to be lying and sneekily reestimating the download time.) With this kind of download speed there is no way I'll have time to download more than one build.
- try to reproduce the bug
- report if it was reproduceable or not
- once the bug is being reproduced, update to a version of Inkscape that
should have it fixed 5) try to reproduce the bug the same way as worked for step 2 6) report if it is still reproduceable.
If windows XP doesn't drive me mad I'll hopefully have some useful feedback in a few hours.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:50:42 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> To: jon@...18... Cc: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net, Inkscape devel list inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 jon@...18... wrote:
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:49:14 -0400 (EDT) From: jon@...18... To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Inkscape devel list inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Call for bug check
Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me?
I'm suffering Windows XP (XP == Windows 2000 + even more useless CRUD) today solely for the purpose of doing some Inkscape testing. (Damn thing is forcing me to use Windows Media Player just to play a CD, bloated yuck.)
sourceforge doesn't include a search by ID like bugzilla which is rather annoying so in case anyone else is willing to help here are direct links to the reports.
925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=925033&gro...
I'm hoping Inserting a few unusual characters using 'charmap' will be enough to test this.
using Inkscape Latest (2004 10 26 2:16 pm) on windows XP http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/win32/LATEST.zip
choose Save As, (standard gtk file chooser) saved as abc.svg without problem
tried saving as 'abc.......ab'
(the dots are unknown characters, some Hebrew some Arabic insterted using windows charmap. the two characters after abc look like accented versions of 'A' and 'a' but the other characters do not even display in the text entry and instead I just get empty rectangles)
got the following error.
Could not build file name from 'file:///U:/Desktop' and 'abc.......ab': Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
I'm not sure why but I'm not getting a console window popping up with other any other information as I might have expected.
I'll be around for another hour or two and I can try something else if you make it clear what you want me to try and do.
Hope that helps.
- Alan
Alan Horkan wrote:
tried saving as 'abc.......ab'
(the dots are unknown characters, some Hebrew some Arabic insterted using windows charmap. the two characters after abc look like accented versions of 'A' and 'a' but the other characters do not even display in the text entry and instead I just get empty rectangles)
got the following error.
Could not build file name from 'file:///U:/Desktop' and 'abc.......ab': Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
Guess what? As far as I can tell, that's not an Inkscape error, but a GTK+ one. It seems to be that the file dialogs won't allow you to build filenames/paths that do not map into the current "filename" 8-bit encoding.
If you have multilingual support (via Microsoft MUI or some such), you could try switching to a language that has those characters, then switching back and using the MRU list to access them.
Also (and if you can't switch language), you could use some text editor that supports UTF-8 to edit your preferences.xml directly and stick that name into your MRU list.
Hmmm... I wonder if it's time to use Inkscape to draw a little 'zone' diagram of the program and all the different points that could be affecting non-ASCII names? Hmmmm....
Alan Horkan wrote:
<>sourceforge doesn't include a search by ID like bugzilla which is rather annoying so in case anyone else is willing to help here are direct links to the reports.
Yes, it does. It's just hiding over to the side. :-)
From the Inkscape sourceforge summary page, http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/ Look right under the "Project: Inkscape: Summary" heading for the row of options, including "Bugs".
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306
Once you're on the bug tracker page, the "Search" box in the left column now defaults to "Bugs". Just enter the bug number in there and click on "Search".
Thanks for the links, though.
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