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Re: pyzim errors when using non-ascii chars

 

Pedro,

I think this bug covers the issue you are seeing:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/572805 . I'm working on it, would
be good if you could help testing it.

Regards,

Jaap

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Pedro <pedro100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I still kepts the old perl version on my windows xp work computer because it
> was more stable. Recently, I checked the status of the windows build and it
> appeared to be pretty stable, but it still has some non-minor glitches.
> Zim on windows allways had a bit of troubles with text format. On Linux,
> everything works fine, but on windows some fine tune is necessary i believe.
> So this is what happens: I take notes in portuguese which makes kind of
> heavy usage of chars like á ã, ó, í, etc. This ends up in a big mess.
> Filenames become all broken, and, as a consequence pyzim throws error at
> runtime which is understoodable.
> For example, if i create a note or namespace called "Reunião", more often
> than not o zim will show an error box as soon as it tries to save the page.
> If i do succed saving the page, the file will be calles something weird like
> "Reuniħo" and i will have my page tree all broken next time i open zim. It
> does get unusable.
> I put my notes on a central bazaar branch on my server and then have a
> branch on each computer i use. I pull the updates to different filesystems:
> NTFS and EXT3. If those have support for the all the chars i use on their
> filenames there should be no problem even if their charsets are diferent...
> or am I missing some important detail?
> Anyway, this is what i get on my log on my windows installation:
> No handlers could be found for logger "zim.fs"
> I realize this concerns zim windows build rather than zim itself.
> Thank you for zim :)
> Pedro
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