Files with international characters (e.g., french accents on e) do not download in latest build

Submitted by Phil-B on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 12:29
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I realized that while the older Qt build (Windows) used a generic ? in a square character for special characters, it did not affect the download. In the latest build (7/2/2012), files with any such character in the file name are just skipped in my download queue.

Submitted by Nir on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 22:15.

Yeah, I'm seeing that. That's a very serious problem, I pulled the auto update notification for the build until I can figure this out. This is something to do with the transition to Unicode strings in the latest build. Apparently the conversion process irreversibly eats-up some extended ASCII characters. I'll have to find out a way to undo this hopefully without going all the way back to using non-Unicode strings for everything.

Thanks, Nir

Submitted by Phil-B on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:18.

Hope you can figure it out, I quite like the new client otherwise !

best, Phil

Submitted by Nir on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 22:22.

Thank you! It looks like I am going to have to undo a lot of the Unicode conversion, so this might take a few days. I'm glad to hear you like the new build otherwise!