We need to hire a Rev programmer who is expert at international character set
encoding, has a Windows XP system, and who can solve the following problem:
> In Czechoslovakia, the "Application Data" folder on Windows XP is called
> "Data aplikací". So, when we get specialfolderpath("26") on Windows, the path
> looks something like this:
>
> C:/Documents and Settings/Username/Data aplikací/OurFolder/
>
> In Rev, all works fine.
>
> But when we create a (regular or binary) text file from a Windows standalone:
>
> put tBatchCommands into URL ("binfile:" & theBatchFileLoc())
>
> the Czech character in the text file is transformed into this:
>
> C:/Documents and Settings/Username/Data aplikacÌ/OurFolder/
>
> (You can see the last character in "Data aplikacÌ" has changed)
>
> When telling cURL to execute this batch file, obviously it cannot find the
> path and an error results.
>
> This has only been a problem for Czechoslovakian customers, I think because
> in most other countries, the translation of "Application Data" doesn't
> contain any double-byte characters, and mostly with Windows XP (since in
> Vista, the folder is called "AppData" in Czech and English).
>
> Obviously we are messing up the character encoding when we write the text
> file and the character is changed.
>
> Again, just to be clear: This is NOT a problem WITHIN Revolution, ONLY when
> writing a text file using the command above.
If you know how to write a text file on Windows that preserves international
character sets, and are available and interested, please reply off-list.
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