Unicode Path Support

[Christian Etter]

Any chance of having support for Unicode path/file names? I would love to see that working. Right now all files which are in a folder named with non-ANSI characters fail to load. Unless your locale matches, even umlaut (äöü) characters are not supported.

You can find some code samples on my web page: http://www.christian-etter.de/?p=476

Christian

[BogdanH]

Hi,

To tell the truth, I don't consider myself as expert on this topic. Codepage(s), Charset(s), ANSI, Unicode, UTF8, UTF16,..characters -all seems to be messed up and at the end, I can't tell what's going on on my PC anymore.
I'm on pure english Win7 x64 (means: no language packs installed) and the only changes I've made is for Regional settings (so I can use Slovenian keyboard). In Slovenian language, there are some east-european characters, but none other (german, french, spanish, etc.) special characters.
The reason I am telling this is: for folder/file names, I can use any characters I wish/need (incl. german umlauts) and everything works in GUI. Ok, I don't know what "code-page-ansi-unicode-stuff" Win is actually using for characters I enter... but everything works here.
After visiting your pages, I'm sure you know more about this than I am. The problem I have is, how can I repair something (and test afterward), if it allready works here... I 'm sure you understand what I mean 

Greetings,
Bogdan

[Christian Etter]

Hi Bogdan,
I understand that from your perspective the software works as it should, and 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
Anyways, if you should decide to implement it at a later time and need help, let me know.

Christian

[nyugi]

Hi Bogdan,

I used ExifToolGUI v3.28 before. It worked fine with folders with special characters in their names (for example the hungarian ő and ű). I downloaded the latest version (4.26.0.0) and I am sad that this has been changed. I get an Invalid filename error message when I select an image under a folder like that.
I don't know what programming language is this program written in, but I'am sure it is possible to support this issue. It's really not too hard to create a folder with special character on pure english Windows. Just copy this, and paste it: Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép. I recommend you to test like this and you should get the same error. After that you could see Christian's samples for help.

Thanks in advance,
Nyugi

[BogdanH]

Hi Nyugi,

I used ExifToolGUI v3.28 before. It worked fine with folders with special characters in their names (for example the hungarian ő and ű).

-if your Windows was set to hungarian (east european) regional/language settings, then there shouldn't be any problems with these characters.

I downloaded the latest version (4.26.0.0) and I am sad that this has been changed. I get an Invalid filename error message when I select an image under a folder like that.

-you must have made some changes in Windows (see above), because I can use these characters for folders/files without problem.

I don't know what programming language is this program written in, but I'am sure it is possible to support this issue.

-it's Pascal (Delphi v7) and such issues are somehow hard to solve, because (as said) I have no such problems.

It's really not too hard to create a folder with special character on pure english Windows.

-no, it isn't. My language (slovenian) requires special characters and I use them all the time (incl. special characters from other european countries).

Just copy this, and paste it: Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép. I recommend you to test like this and you should get the same error.

-I did and no problems here (see attached image) -that's why it's hard for me to find "solution".

With GUI, I only have problems (on my PC) if folder/file names contain asian (chinese, japanese,...) characters. However, I've seen GUI's screenshots where such characters were used for folder names -I assume, users there had different Windows regional/language settings than I have.
I'm really sorry I can't help you further at this momment.

Bogdan