User name with special character ü seems to cause error
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Wolfgang Mueller
Apr 11, 2016, 9:31:06 AM4/11/16
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Hello,
when I start WinFF I get the following error:
The user name is müller - a very common name in germany. It seems to me, that WinFF gets an error because of the charcter ü. How can I solve this problem?
Thanx for answers.
when I start WinFF I get the following error:
The user name is müller - a very common name in germany. It seems to me, that WinFF gets an error because of the charcter ü. How can I solve this problem?
Thanx for answers.
Francois_C
Apr 12, 2016, 9:45:15 AM4/12/16
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Lazarus/FPC (the IDE and compiler Lazarus is build with) are natively compatible with UTF-8 since version 1.6 of Lazarus and 3.0 of FPC. Maybe the next version of WinFF will be able to handle such filenames soon.
As for me, several years ago, I had to change my user name (François, which is very common also in France for a “Français”;) on Windows. Filenames or paths with “umlauts”, accents or cedillas are not compatible either, and WinFF sends command lines to FFmpeg, which does not simplify the problem. UTF8 implementation has been very troublesome on Lazarus for years, and I hope Matt will now be able to build an UTF-8 compatible WinFF with the new UTF-8 Lazarus…
As for me, several years ago, I had to change my user name (François, which is very common also in France for a “Français”;) on Windows. Filenames or paths with “umlauts”, accents or cedillas are not compatible either, and WinFF sends command lines to FFmpeg, which does not simplify the problem. UTF8 implementation has been very troublesome on Lazarus for years, and I hope Matt will now be able to build an UTF-8 compatible WinFF with the new UTF-8 Lazarus…
BiggMatt
Apr 12, 2016, 10:00:46 AM4/12/16
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Mostly likely not, but i just rebuilt the windows installer with the latest lazarus. It may work as is. I think i have to replace some libraries with others
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Francois_C <fraco...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lazarus/FPC (the IDE and compiler Lazarus is build with) are natively compatible with UTF-8 since version 1.6 of Lazarus and 3.0 of FPC. Maybe the next version of WinFF will be able to handle such filenames soon.
As for me, several years ago, I had to change my user name (François, which is very common also in France for a “Français”;) on Windows. Filenames or paths with “umlauts”, accents or cedillas are not compatible either, and WinFF sends command lines to FFmpeg, which does not simplify the problem. UTF8 implementation has been very troublesome on Lazarus for years, and I hope Matt will now be able to build an UTF-8 compatible WinFF with the new UTF-8 Lazarus…
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BiggMatt
Apr 12, 2016, 10:01:25 AM4/12/16
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It is available as the latest windows version on the downloads page
Francois_C
Apr 14, 2016, 4:47:30 AM4/14/16
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I'll try the new build. I rebuilt the binary with Lazarus 1.6, but it could not handle utf-8 files either. I'm not sure the sources I use are exactly the latest ones. Where can they be downloaded?
But I wrote some small apps from scratch with Lazarus 1.6 and I had no utf-8 issues. I suppose the source code must be written in utf-8…
BiggMatt
Apr 14, 2016, 10:28:29 AM4/14/16
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i am also writing a video thumbnailer and when i used functions from winff, it said they were obsolete and to use the newer packages. Like i had to change "fileutils" in uses clause to "laz_fileutils"
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Francois_C <fraco...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll try the new build. I rebuilt the binary with Lazarus 1.6, but it could not handle utf-8 files either. I'm not sure the sources I use are exactly the latest ones. Where can they be downloaded?
But I wrote some small apps from scratch with Lazarus 1.6 and I had no utf-8 issues. I suppose the source code must be written in utf-8…
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