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[Brendan Kidwell <snarf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pedro, I made a bunch of fixes today mostly to the installer and
incorporated all of Jaap's fixes up to this point into a working
Windows build. If you'd like to test it before we officially release
0.47 let me know and I'll post the installer online.

Brendan Kidwell


On 5/18/10, Pedro <pedro100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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