[Seaside] Downloads and filenames with diacritics
Sebastian Sastre
sebastian at flowingconcept.com
Tue Sep 28 17:23:58 UTC 2010
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
>> >
>> >>
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