[L2Ork-dev] non-standard characters in path

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:09 PM Iain Mott <mott at escuta.org> wrote:
>
> Ah. I found that it's easy to reproduce on a Windows 10 machine (my
> laptop has this) with purrdata 2.10. Please extract the attached file.
> There is a masterpatch.pd and a subpatch.pd file included in a directory
> called "pürdãtá". If you open the masterpatch.pd in Purrdata the
> embedded "subpatch" abstraction fails to load. If you rename the
> directory purrdata, it will.

I can reproduce.

It's confusing to say the least-- we can easily load the parent patch
which of course uses
the same special-character-laden path as the child abstraction.

It seems quite unlikely that the loader path for abstractions somehow does
an end-run around the windows path-handling algorithm. I'll investigate.

-Jonathan

>
> Here is a table of accents/characters that mostly covers Portuguese (and
> probably covers Spanish) and perhaps even Scandinavian languages:
>
> http://www.lsi.usp.br/~help/html/iso.html
>
> I'd also add to this the following two common characters: º and ª
>
> Cheers,
>
> Iain
>
>
> Em 19/11/2019 14:23, Jonathan Wilkes escreveu:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:03 PM Iain Mott <mott at escuta.org> wrote:
> >> Thanks Jonathan. The version that's being used is 2.9.0 and not 2.10.0
> >> which I see is now available. So that's great. I'll be able to reinstall
> >> and test this on the work machines tomorrow. Will let you know how it
> >> goes.
> > 2.9.0 was supposed to have already fixed this issue:
> >
> > "fixed bug handling certain encodings in filenames under Windows
> > (thanks to Alv_ro on the Pd Forum for reporting it)"
> >
> > https://github.com/jonwwilkes/purr-data/releases/2.9.0
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Iain
> >>
> >> Em 19/11/2019 13:02, Jonathan Wilkes escreveu:
> >>> Just to be clear-- we already have a special code path hooked in for
> >>> Windows to handle filename issues like these. So if you are using
> >>> Purr Data version 2.10.0 this problem shouldn't be happening.
> >>>
> >>> -Jonathan
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:33 AM Jonathan Wilkes
> >>> <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:21 AM Iain Mott <mott at escuta.org> wrote:
> >>>>> Dear developers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've been presenting Pd/Purrdata to an introductory sound design class
> >>>>> and students have been installing the software on their mainly Windows
> >>>>> machines. A common problem that I'm encountering is that many of the
> >>>>> students have user names with non-standard characters such as
> >>>>> "João" and
> >>>>> "Márcia". While it's possible to change the user name at the login
> >>>>> level, the path remains unchanged after re-boot/login and Pd/Purrdata
> >>>>> fails to load objects and abstractions (abstraction at least and they
> >>>>> appear in red in the patches). There is apparently a way to
> >>>>> resolve the
> >>>>> path problem at the system level by making changes to registry values
> >>>>> (I'm not a regular Windows user), however I do not wish to make such
> >>>>> changes on the machines of the students because there is a risk that I
> >>>>> may damage the system if I make a mistake.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As a workaround I've been creating a new user name on each machine but
> >>>>> as such, the users can't access there other docs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since other programs don't seem to have this problem, my question is:
> >>>>> can non-standard characters such as á, à and ã be made permissible in
> >>>>> paths for Purr Data?
> >>>> Iain,
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you post a very simple example patch (e.g., one or two objects)
> >>>> that
> >>>> shows this problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
> >>>>
> >>>> There's a special code-path specifically for Windows to address
> >>>> this problem
> >>>> so I'm unsure why it's not working on your users' machines.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Jonathan
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks very much,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Iain
> >>>>>
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