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Re: pyzim errors when using non-ascii chars

 

Ok, I'll come back with some feedback once there's a windows build including
this fix.

As always, big thanks.

Pedro

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jaap Karssenberg <
jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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