Re: Problem with swedish letters

Gunnar,

Thanks very much for your help. As I suspected, the WinZip you
uploaded did not work properly on Mac OSX (unzipped with Stuffit).
I've put a screenshot of the result in the "Files" section. It did
however work on Win2k.

A little research on the zip format with regards to
internationalization has turned up some very unpleasant results. It
turns out that the zip format does not have a coherent scheme for
dealing with international (non-ASCII) character encodings. Instead,
WinZip has adopted a series of heuristics and hacks, using
"extensions", to give the appearance of working as long as there is
enough commonality in the default platform character encodings between
the machines exchanging the zips. Even worse, different zip vendors
are adopting different "extensions" for managing Unicode characters
(Unicode is _the_ international standard for handling any language
script on the planet).

As a result, I'm not sure Pixory is ever going to have a perfect
solution to this problem (unless it involves ditching zip in favor of
something more rational, like bzip or gzip). However, I'm going to
read the zip specification to see if I can get my arms around the
problem. Looks like I'm going to learn more about zip than I ever
wanted to.

regards,

joe

--- In [email protected], Gunnar Heikkilä
<gunnar.heikkila.1@h...> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> your archive did not work. I have uploaded two example archives;
> ZipTestPixory.zip is created by Pixory (stand-alone version 2.12), and
> ZipTestManual.zip is created by WinZip. The file
> ZipTestScreenshots.jpg contains pictures of your archive as well as
> the other two as I see them on my machine (WinXP, swedish).
> 
> /Gunnar
> 
> 





 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pixory-beta/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
     [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
     http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/