FangQ, I don't doubt that your description of the problem is spot on. What I wonder is if you boot into your Linux distro, temporarily assign West European file names to these files, open Picasa and there change the file names back to (UTF-8) Chinese, will this suffice to resolve the problem you are seeing....
Henri On Mar 27, 5:26 pm, FangQ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 27, 6:27 am, mhenriday <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FangQ, I have several Chinese-language and Japanese-language folders > > on the HDD under the Images folder on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup. > > Picasa 3.6 does not crash when loading, nor does it have any problem > > displaying these folders. I don't know if the difference between my > > experience and yours could be due to the fact that in my case, the > > folder titles were assigned using SCIM on Ubuntu, rather than the > > Windows IME.... > > I totally agree with you that a well-encoded Chinese folder/file name > will be no problem to Picasa. However, as I said in my previous > email, the folder name are encoded in GBK (cp936), thus, these > names are not valid UTF-8 strings (assuming your locale is in UTF-8). > > here is something you can test. Run the following command > under the search path of your picasa: > > mkdir `echo "照片" | iconv -f utf-8 -t gbk` > > it will look like " Ƭ". Then copy a few photons into this > folder. Launch picasa and see what happen. > > let me know if this example is sufficient to illustrate the problem. > > (I know GTK uses G_BROKEN_FILENAMES to set up > a fall-back locale when a broken filename is detected, but > not sure if picasa has this mechanism) > > > > > Henri > > > On Mar 26, 2:49 pm, FangQ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > after trying different things, I finally figured out the error was due > > > to the presence of a few Chinese named folders. > > > > The folders was named in GBK (cp936) encoding (which is the default > > > encoding for Chinese for Windows) as was copied from windows > > > partition. I am using zh.CN_UTF-8 locale in Ubuntu, so it shows as > > > garbled text in my file explorer (however, it doesn't crash). > > > Unfortunately, Picasa 3 seems not able to handle this and crash every > > > single time when it starts to scan this folder (and sadly, the scan > > > starts every time). > > > > This should be easy to duplicate and I wish it can be fixed in the > > > next release (whenever it will be). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
