Re: PDesk 0.8.5 - don't use with non-ASCII alphabets

It is almost assuredly caused by a Unicode conversion error.

Make sure (if you are running from source), that you are using a Unicode 
Python. I'm not sure if we have to worry about a Unicode wxWidgets, it may 
only come in Unicode form.

If you can show me how to type the string in from the keyboard, I can try 
and see if the problem is because the string cannot be converted to the 
Palm character set (that would probably be a fatal problem). If it can, 
then we just have to figure out what we are doing wrong.

So, to be able to save to a Palm format, we need to be able to convert the 
character to the Palm character set.

Since PDesk only really supports the Palm format, if that does not work we 
will have a bit of a problem.

I suppose we could optionally use a different non-palm compatible 
character set, but then you might not be able to use the PDB on your Palm. 
You would however be able to use PDesk for general desktop use.

One solution would be to change PDesk so it uses an XML file format, but 
I'm pretty sure that PDesk was written with only the thought of saving to 
a PDB file format, but I could be wrong about that.

Rick


On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, "Tomas" wrote:

> Just experienced and was able to reproduce a visual glitch and file
> corruption when using Czech language characters in note field of the
> outline.
>
> Not only is the note field unable to hold that text: once note is
> written and I switch to another task, all chars get lost except the
> first one. When I return and write another text there, even
> ascii-only, it is not retained, but on the switch, it reverts to the
> previous text (one standalone non-ascii char).
>
> If such file is saved, it cannot be opened later on, as all content
> gets lost and file format is corrupted probably too.
>
> The visual glitch that happens alongside is that the progress icons in
> the outline get doubled (I got a screenshot).
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
>



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