[pmwiki-users] Special chars in wikilib.d/files

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:32:05AM +0100, Thomas Lederer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i am having a night full of headaches. There are files in the i18n files
> that have special chars (mainly French and German files from what i see
> (accents and umlauts), all the Japanese seem to work).
> 
> My problem is, that i am on a mac, and so i can't even untar the file
> completely (which is a common and known mac issue). I now even tried
> unpacking the i18n file on a windows machine, and copying the files
> back, which didn't work either, the umlauts still cause problems (making
> the files unreadable).
> 
> My question is: did somebody on this list have a similar problem, and
> maybe has even a solution?

The problem is that Mac OS/X seems to require that all filenames
use utf-8 encoding, while PmWiki encodes the filenames with whatever 
encoding was in effect when the pages were created.  For the German 
and French pages, this would be Latin-1/iso-8859-1 encoding.

I don't have a fix for this short of completely redoing the way 
that PmWiki maps pagenames to filenames.  Coming up with a new
way to do it is easy, coming up with a way to do it that 
preserves compatibility with existing PmWiki installs is
much more difficult.

Not to mention that there are other issues (e.g., supporting
case-insensitive pagenames under Unix) that should probably be
addressed by the change as well.

So, it's a known problem; I don't have a quick or simple fix handy,
and I'm looking for solutions.  I can't say for sure when I might
be able to have it fixed.

(Note that a similar problem exists for accented characters in
uploaded files.)

Pm