[chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

[Eric Vought]

^strong^string . Sorry for the Swypo.

On Jul 25, 2016 1:55 AM, "Eric Vought" <evought at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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