On 20 Sep 2008, at 6:37 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On 20 Sep 2008, at 5:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>> (apologies if this shows up twice; I'm trying a different smtp >>> server since my last couple messages never showed up) >>> >>> On Sep 20, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> >>>> BibDesk tries various encodings for external file groups, though >>>> not >>>> the one from your preferences. It tries UTF-8 before Windows >>>> Latin 1, >>>> so if it's UTF-8 it should use that. If it doesn't, there should be >>>> some characters that are not UTF-8, or the download messes thing >>>> up. >>> >>> It's probably using ASCII, actually, unless the patch I posted to >>> >> >> Shouldn't ASCII not just fail if there are non-ASCII characters? > > That was my original belief (and the intent of the code), but it > appears to succeed. That may be a change in NSString since 10.4, > but I'm not sure.
Isn't that a bug in NSString? The docs say it returns nil if the encoding is wrong. Christiaan > > >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03064.html >>> >>> was applied to the trunk. I think I tested it with a number of >>> cases, but James never posted back saying whether it worked, and I >>> forgot about it. In my repo, it looks like I added that code, then >>> changed the calls to it to pass 0 instead of NSASCIIStringEncoding. >>> >> >> That's not applied ATM. > > I checked it in now. I think it's an improved heuristic. > >> >> >> Christiaan >> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20 Sep 2008, at 3:12 PM, Mathias Hofmann wrote: >>>> >>>>> How can I set the character encoding for an external file group? >>>>> >>>>> In Bibdesk (version 1.3.18), I used the "external file group" >>>>> feature >>>>> to "subcribe" to a URL (http://www.bibsonomy.org/bib/group/inain). >>>>> This is a generated bibtex-file from a (collaborative) >>>>> bibliography >>>>> database. My browser reports it to be UTF-encoded. Saving it and >>>>> manually importing it into Bibdesk (which is set to open/export >>>>> using >>>>> UTF8 encoding) works fine. >>>>> >>>>> However, the entries of the external file group's items appear to >>>>> have >>>>> a wrong encoding. It looks as if Bibdesk would take the data to be >>>>> encoded as Windows Latin 1. >>>>> >>>>> Weird. Any thoughts? >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
