Roland0 wrote: > First of all, I have no idea if LMS on Windows can use Unicode at all > (apparently, an application has to be specifically designed to do so). > Also, Unicode on Windows isn't UTF-8, but UTF-16 (although Microsoft now > seems to have changed their mind, according to 'Wikipedia' > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16): "As of May 2019, Microsoft seems > to have reversed course and now supports and recommends using UTF-8". > According to other sources, the UTF-8 support on WIndows is currently > too buggy to use, though) > And finally, there is a basic flaw in your approach: If Trackstat runs > with UTF-8 encoding (no matter on which OS), it will not be able to read > it's own data (which is exactly what't happening now). Your new approach > is functionally identical to what you are doing now...
I couldn't help myself but actually try my idea ..."the long and winding road":o:rolleyes:;). Installed a version of Win 10 pro (19041.264) as a VM and then LMS. No problem to import from my older win 7 lms. But of course the export thing didn't work as I was hoping for. Well, "if you don't go you don't know". Stupid idea really but on the other hand one never knows with "computing", sooo many variables. One thing I've found out is that the trackstat URL's in LMS actual database is encoded as win 1252 in Win and UTF-8 in LMS linux. I guess it makes sense and is natural for anyone more clever than me but I just thought mentioning it as info for anyone else reading who's on my level of knowledge. > Anyway, writing a conversion script should (hopefully!) only take a > couple of minutes. You can either upload your Trackstat file somewhere I > can D/L it, or I'll upload the script and you can run it locally (note, > however, that with the latter option, I have no way of testing if the > conversion actually works) That sounds fantastic if you want to help like that! :) Should I send you my smaller "test library" maybe? It's about 2300 files or so, <1MB (main is 40-50MB or so). From my tests on it I've found at a minimum these characters/letters as "problems; å, Å, ä, Ä, Ö, ü, Ü, é, É, à, À. Most likely many more "problems" on my main library.Think I can use "google drive" for an upload? Send you a link in a PM maybe? But you need to give me some instructions how to use it. I know what a "batfile" is on windows and how to use it. Think batfile is a sort of "script"? But on linux I'm completly blindfolded if that's what you've in mind for your script? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ doggod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46431 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112495
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