[etoys-dev] Encoding for uploading projects

Timothy Falconer timothy at squeakland.org
Thu Sep 24 09:19:17 EDT 2009


Probably best to solve this on the server side, especially since old  
projects and versions will be using UTF-8, right?

I can switch over to UTF-8 as soon as I convert the database content  
from Brazil, which was uploaded as 8859.


On Sep 24, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Yoshiki,
>
> when Etoys uploads a project to webdav, does it encode the file name  
> as UTF-8? Is there perhaps an HTTP or HTML header we must set to  
> indicate to the server the filename's encoding?
>
> Even if the Squeakland server cannot handle non-ASCII names for now,  
> we should make sure Etoys does the right thing. Maybe someone could  
> test with a regular DAV server?
>
> Or can we ignore the issue for this release?
>
> - Bert -
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: squeakland website <noreply at squeakland.org>
>> Date: 24. September 2009 11:53:21 MESZ
>> To: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>> Subject: {squeakland} Comment on 'Schüttelschachtel' by <bert>
>>
>> Comment on 'Schüttelschachtel' by <bert>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> The screenshot is there http://squeakland.org/content/showcase/everyone/accounts/bert/Sch%FCttelschachtel.png
>>
>> Uses the same encoding as the project file name, and launching the  
>> project works. Looking at this page's source code there is no  
>> difference. Perhaps the launcher does something to make it work?
>>
>> -----
>>
>> To view the project page, click ... http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7051
>>
>>
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