[Seaside] Downloads and filenames with diacritics

[Sebastian Sastre]

yes, it's a double encoding/decoding process (that you can't do, in Pharo, unless you use the method I've wrote there)


On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:

> To ensure you preserve characters, you need to go via the proper utf8 encoder when going from characters to bytes and vice versa.
> 
> -Boris (via BlackBerry)
> 
> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> 
> To: Seaside - general discussion <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org> 
> Sent: Tue Sep 28 10:16:26 2010
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Downloads and filenames with diacritics 
> 
> Yeah, that is sexy.
> 
> It also needs it's complement:
> 
> String class>>fromHex: anHexString
> 	"It returns the string that has its characters encoded in hex.
> 	'el ñandú' asHex 
> 	String fromHex: '656C20F1616E64FA'.
> 	Play with those."
> 
> 	^ String streamContents: [:stream| |source|
> 		source := anHexString readStream.
> 		[source atEnd] whileFalse: [
> 			stream nextPut: (Character value: (Integer readFrom: (source next: 2) radix: 16))]].
> 
>  sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried hexing the bytes and using that as a filename?
>> 
>> (aString asByteArrayEncoding: #utf8) asHexString
>> 
>> -Boris (via BlackBerry)
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> To: Seaside - general discussion <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Sent: Tue Sep 28 09:24:26 2010
>> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Downloads and filenames with diacritics
>> 
>> Yeah, we actually saw that possibility but I was hoping to make the app not to be forced to maintain the original name in the database (so it can't never be confused about it nor inject maintenance costs).
>> 
>> What do you guys think about some other way to encode the filename that preserves the original (with diacritics) but for the OS (and xsendfile) it can look like a non-diacritical one?
>> 
>> any ideas? (or encoders to suggest?)
>> 
>> sebastian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Miguel Cobá wrote:
>> 
>> > El mar, 28-09-2010 a las 13:03 -0300, Sebastian Sastre escribió:
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> I've been using this:
>> >>
>> >> (GRCodec forEncoding: 'utf-8') encode: aFilaname
>> >>
>> >> just before writing an uploaded file (that probably has diacritics in its name).
>> >>
>> >> The thing is that xsendfile doesn't find the ones with diacritics and the download fails. Non diacritical downloads works just fine.
>> >>
>> >> As workaround I'm forcing filenames to be non-diacritical while we find a solution.
>> >>
>> >> Wonder if any of you guys have solved making your webapp to offer files download even when the filenames has diacriticals? I mean with xsendfile (from a seaside app of course).
>> >
>> > Store the files with numbers and save the original name in the database.
>> > Xsendfile the numbered file and state that the file should be offered
>> > with the original name. For example, in PHP:
>> >
>> >    header("X-Sendfile: $numberedfile");
>> >    header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
>> >    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; file=\"$originalname\"");
>> >
>> > The downloaded file needs not to be the same name that the save as
>> > offered by the browser.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> >>
>> >> sebastian_______________________________________________
>> >> seaside mailing list
>> >> seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
>> >
>> > --
>> > Miguel Cobá
>> > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > seaside mailing list
>> > seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> seaside mailing list
>> seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> seaside mailing list
>> seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
> 
> _______________________________________________
> seaside mailing list
> seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/seaside/attachments/20100928/904d54fc/attachment.htm