awy;623641 Wrote: > I guess no-one is going to like this but here is a reality-check on this > issue. There is close to zero chance of anyone at Logitech working on > this officially. The only result of trying to escalate that is most > likely to be the complete withdrawal of MusicIP support from Squeezebox > Server. > > Therefore, continued support and, in particular, resolution of this > issue, will rely on either: > > > - some Logitech staff member fixing it because they care about it > personally; or - someone from the community picking up the ball. > > > > > I do not know if it is actually fixable or not, in the general case. > SbS (in 7.6) takes care never to convert a filename from the > bytestring representation returned by the filesystem API (in perl) to > some other character-set encoding, and then back again for further use > in the filesystem API. The reason for this is that such conversion may > not be reversible and SbS may not know the character-set encoding of > underlying file-system. If the MusicIP API makes such conversions > (which I think it does), then the results may not be reversible. > Nonetheless, it is probably possible to go over all the relevant > parts of the SbS MusicIP plugin and make either a best-guess, or take > a specific systematic approach, which would work in most cases.
Well, nowadays a company selling software products worldwide cannot afford not having full unicode support, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese. Microsoft Windows have been handling this problem for more than 10 years now. If Logitech doesn't care about this problem, I guess that would simply mean that the company doesn't care about the products and do not plan to continue to sell them in foreseable future ... Hope this is not true. Actually being full unicode is a real develoment issue not so easy to deal with. It requires good develoment management. Unfortunately, a lot of developpers are prone to consider that a simple string is the only object to care about, and consider a non english accented character as a curiosity. (Not speaking about SBS developpers here, but about a lot of developpers I had to deal with) -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86355 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
