[Audacity-devel] non-ascii labels

[Stuart <smc...@fr...>]

Hello,

The recent discussions of label issues prompts me to ask 
about some label related issues.  Please forgive and point me
to the right place to ask about this, if this group is not it.

I do (or will be doing) a lot of annotation (labeling) of recorded 
Japanese speech, with the annotations in Japanese.  I am using
1.3.0b (on Windows 2000 with a Japanese locale, cp-932 charset)
for this now and it sort of works but there are some annoying 
problems:
- When an Audacity project is saved and reloaded, labels
  are corrupted.
- Editing labels using the backspace key shows that there is 
  some byte/character confusion in the code -- one delete 
  changes the character to something weird, a second deletes
  it completely.
- Certain characters typed into the label editor are processed as
  shortcuts, causing undesired popups and preventing entry of
  certain characters.
- Crashes while entering/editing labels are frequent.

I looked in Bugzilla, and didn't see anything that sounded liike 
these issues, except for 243 [Pressing 'backspace' when adding 
a new label crash].  Are these known issues that have been, 
or are likely to be, fixed in the next release?

BTW, athough there are some problems, using Audacity to 
do the labeling is usable.  CoolEdit 2000 fails to handle Japanese
characters completely.  So kudos to the Audacity developers!!