Re: [Audacity-devel] non-ascii labels

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

"Leland" wrote:
> Okay Stuart, let's try this again. :-)
> 
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity-win-1.3.1-unicode-beta.zip
> 
> This is a "debug" build so it will be a tad bit slower when import files and
> such, so that's what's going on if you think it to be sluggish when doing
> certain things.
> 
> I will try to get a "release" unicode project setup this weekend unless
> someone else wants to do it????

This one won't let me enter any japanese characters into a label at all.
Normally, to enter japanese text, one turns on MS' Japanese IME 
(input method editor) which will create a small text box in the upper 
left corner of my screen somewhere for entering and composing the 
japanese text.  (I think this is how it works if the application makes
no provision for interacting with the IME.  If it does make such provision,
then the IME input/composion box can be made congruent with the
application's input text box, so that one appears to be entering the
text into the application, and the IME becomes more transparent.
But I know little about this so take what I say with a big grain of salt.)  
When it has been entered, one types a return and the 
IME sends the string of japanese characters to the application.  (I am 
not sure if the app receives them as unicode or cp-932.)  That all works 
fine except after I type the return nothing appears in the label text box.

I can enter an placeholder ascii label, open the Edit Labels dialog and 
and change the label in there to japanese characters (*).  When I do, the
correct text appears in the label track.  
(*) There is some weirdness here too.  I click in the cell for the label text.
The IME entry text box appears in the upper left area of my screen as
usual.  I type in several japanese characters and a return.  Only the first
character appears in the cell.  However any subsequent characters I
type are ok, and now, the IME entry and composition window is congruent 
with the cell instead of in the upper left screen somewhere.  

When I save the project and reopen it, I get an error messge, 
"Error: not well formed at line 148".  Line 148 is the first label line
that contains japanese text.  The encoding of the .aup file appears 
to be cp-932 (the default for my system).  I'm non-sure why the 
non-unicode build would produce a valid utf-8 file, and the non-unicode
build would produce an illegal xml file (since there is no encoding 
declaration in it, the xml reader will assume utf-8, but it is actually
cp-932).

When I export the labels, then import them, they are imported 
correctly.  The labels file encoding also appears to be cp-932.

As an aside, I also found the following to be frustrating, but maybe 
because I don't really know what I'm doing yet...

If I select a section of audio, type ctrl-B, I get a label text box.
If I type a return, the box disappears.  If I type ctrl-B again,
nothing happens. (Because the the label track now has focus
rather than the audio track?)  I couldn't figure out how to return
focus to the audio track without loosing my selection (annoying
if it took some work to get the right selection.)  

And, it would be really nice if there were some way to make the 
Edit Labels dialog non-modal so that one could listen to selections
while editing the info in the Label Edit dialog.

HTH