Re: HELP! "bad bencoded data" with new generated torrent

Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>>From: David Smith <[email protected]>
>>            A hint, where your problem MIGHT be: UTF-8 encoding?
> 
> 
>>http://cplan.cse.msu.edu/weblogs/smithiscrazy/archive/2005/02/07/370.aspx 
> 
> 
>>            P.S.   .torrent files are now encoded in UTF-8 ( I'm pretty sure
>>=D )  Check out BT 4.0.0 at http://www.bittorrent.com
>><http://www.bittorrent.com/>  
> 
> 
> There are two spots that claim BT uses UTF-8, one of the linked to
> locations does not exist (http://www.bittorrent.com/download.html), while
> the other (http://www.bittorrent.com/protocol.html) says nothing of the
> sort. I am therefore highly skeptical of the reliability of the original
> author.

http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrent_versions.html

 > Torrent fields are correctly created and interpreted as utf8

> The person responding as "Bram" (who may or may not be Bram Cohen) isn't
> saying UTF-8 either, merely that at the lowest layers they're binary
> strings.
> 
> 
>>David Smith
>>Michigan State University
>>Student Ambassador for Microsoft
> 
> 
> My condolences on that position.
> 
> 


-- 
Olaf van der Spek
http://xccu.sf.net/


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

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

<*> 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/