[chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

[Eric Vought]

According to this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
NTFS stores file names internally in Unicode, but there are several
versions of the API calls to get short/long/Unicode names. So, since CHIRP
uses Unicode internally, it is likely not a matter of converting the path
to Unicode but making sure that all of the API calls catch it that way in
the first place (which should never hurt folks with only ASCII characters
in their paths).

This page (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10180765/open-file-with-a-unicode-filename
) has details on handling this in Python. If you explicitly pass a Unicode
strong *in* you will always get Unicode back from the call. Example with
os.listdir() at bottom.

On Jul 24, 2016 5:05 PM, "Shon Edwards" <sre.1966 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hadn't thought of that; that's a wonderful idea.  We live in a worldwide
> Unicode world now.  Some of my radios can be programmed in Japanese, others
> in European languages.  MS started to enable Windows and apps for Unicode
> over 15 years ago.  No reason to not go along now.  Thx.
>
> Shon
> K6QT
>
> Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic)
> Amateur call:  K6QT
> 1039 N 2575 W
> Layton, UT, 84041-7709
> USA
> Home phone:  (801) 444-3445
> E-mail:  sre.1966 at gmail.com
>
> or
>
> Shon Edwards
> 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd.
> Bedford, WY 83112
> Cell:  (307) 248-2104
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:
>> >> A command line option could solve it so
>> >> easily.
>> >
>> > Patches are welcome.
>> >
>> > The problem is, of course, not one of knowing whether we're on windows
>> > and doing something different, but the actual "something different"
>> > itself. Few of the chirp developers use windows and/or have non-ascii
>> > characters in their usernames.
>> >
>> > It takes someone interested in and capable of solving the problem. If
>> > that's you, please see this page:
>> >
>> > http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers
>>
>> We had a similar problem when we received special characters in
>> RepeaterBook data. I fixed that by converting the string encoding.
>> Maybe something similar could be done with the home folder path
>> string.
>>
>>
>> http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/revisions/07d6115431a4/diff
>>
>> Tom KD7LXL
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