Re: [Bibdesk-users] Character encoding for external file groups: How do I set it?

[Mathias H. <mat...@we...>]

I finally got around to checking out a recent nightly.
Now everything works fine. -- Thanks.

Am 20.09.2008 um 19:07 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:

>
> On 20 Sep 2008, at 6:37 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 20 Sep 2008, at 5:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> (apologies if this shows up twice; I'm trying a different smtp
>>>> server since my last couple messages never showed up)
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 20, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BibDesk tries various encodings for external file groups, though
>>>>> not
>>>>> the one from your preferences. It tries UTF-8 before Windows
>>>>> Latin 1,
>>>>> so if it's UTF-8 it should use that. If it doesn't, there should  
>>>>> be
>>>>> some characters that are not UTF-8, or the download messes thing
>>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>> It's probably using ASCII, actually, unless the patch I posted to
>>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn't ASCII not just fail if there are non-ASCII characters?
>>
>> That was my original belief (and the intent of the code), but it
>> appears to succeed.  That may be a change in NSString since 10.4,
>> but I'm not sure.
>
> Isn't that a bug in NSString? The docs say it returns nil if the
> encoding is wrong.
>
> Christiaan
>
>>
>>
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/bib...@li.../msg03064.html
>>>>
>>>> was applied to the trunk.  I think I tested it with a number of
>>>> cases, but James never posted back saying whether it worked, and I
>>>> forgot about it.  In my repo, it looks like I added that code, then
>>>> changed the calls to it to pass 0 instead of NSASCIIStringEncoding.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's not applied ATM.
>>
>> I checked it in now.  I think it's an improved heuristic.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 Sep 2008, at 3:12 PM, Mathias Hofmann wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I set the character encoding for an external file group?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Bibdesk (version 1.3.18), I used the "external file group"
>>>>>> feature
>>>>>> to "subcribe" to a URL (http://www.bibsonomy.org/bib/group/ 
>>>>>> inain).
>>>>>> This is a generated bibtex-file from a (collaborative)
>>>>>> bibliography
>>>>>> database. My browser reports it to be UTF-encoded. Saving it and
>>>>>> manually importing it into Bibdesk (which is set to open/export
>>>>>> using
>>>>>> UTF8 encoding) works fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, the entries of the external file group's items appear to
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> a wrong encoding. It looks as if Bibdesk would take the data to  
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> encoded as Windows Latin 1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Weird. Any thoughts?
>>>>>
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