[etoys-dev] Encoding for uploading projects

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Sep 24 11:26:36 EDT 2009


Good idea then we at least named the thumb within the project using a  
constant name ;)

Looking at the uploaded filename for my Schüttelschachtel project it  
appears it was sent or saved as Latin-1. This is wrong, we need to be  
sending / storing as UTF-8.

- Bert -

On 24.09.2009, at 16:48, Timothy Falconer wrote:

> Hmm.... I use the outer-pr file from webdav, but the screenshot I  
> get from within the PR file.
>
> Might be part of the problem.
>
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> I don't know, that's why I was asking Yoshiki.
>>
>> Do you use the filename as transmitted by webdav, or do you extract  
>> it from the .pr itself? I'd have assumed it comes from webdav, and  
>> if so, we must make sure Etoys is actually transmitting the right  
>> information.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> On 24.09.2009, at 15:19, Timothy Falconer wrote:
>>
>>> 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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