#81 Exporting files with norwegian wovels messes up file names

[Morten Skarstad]

Case: I am maintaining an autumn tournament ("høstturnering") for a club in Norway, and when I try to add new games to the PGN (usually by filtering on the tournament in ScidVsPC and exporting filtered games) and double clicking on my existing PGN in the file dialogue, ScidVsPC does not overwrite the existing PGN. Instead, it creates a new file with a garbled name, where some of the letters are replace with some double byte encoding (UTF8?).

Trying to save a game to the file "Bjørn Dæhlie vs Ådne Søndrål.pgn" becomes "Bjørn Dæhlie vs Ã…dne SøndrÃ¥l.pgn"

This is tested on 2 different computers running Windows. Mainline SCID seems to have the same problem.

[Steven]

Ok... Perhaps you can find any file operation (such as create a database, or any export feature) that does successfully write to a wovel (laugh! :>) file name ?
Cheers

[Morten Skarstad]

Is this a joke? If so, I don't get it.

A vowel in my vocabulary is a letter that can be pronounced with an open
mouth, without using tongue, lips or anything to shape it, as opposed to
consonants. The english alphabet has five or six vowels (depending on who
you ask), namely a, e, i, o, u and y. The norwegian alphabet has three
additional vowels, æ, ø and å. These are incorrectly coded when saving
files from ScidVsPC. I can imagine a number of letters in other languages
faces similar problems, such as é, ä, ß, ç etc.

tir. 4. nov. 2025 kl. 09:18 skrev Steven stevenaaus@users.sourceforge.net:

Ok... Perhaps you can find any file operation (such as create a database,
or any export feature) that does successfully write to a wovel (laugh!
:>) file name ?
Cheers

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[tickets:#81] https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/tickets/81/ Exporting
files with norwegian wovels messes up file names

Status: open
Milestone: 1.0
Created: Tue Nov 04, 2025 07:41 AM UTC by Morten Skarstad
Last Updated: Tue Nov 04, 2025 07:41 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Case: I am maintaining an autumn tournament ("høstturnering") for a club
in Norway, and when I try to add new games to the PGN (usually by filtering
on the tournament in ScidVsPC and exporting filtered games) and double
clicking on my existing PGN in the file dialogue, ScidVsPC does not
overwrite the existing PGN. Instead, it creates a new file with a garbled
name, where some of the letters are replace with some double byte encoding
(UTF8?).

Trying to save a game to the file "Bjørn Dæhlie vs Ådne Søndrål.pgn"
becomes "Bjørn Dæhlie vs Ådne Søndrål.pgn"

This is tested on 2 different computers running Windows. Mainline SCID
seems to have the same problem.

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[Steven]

Can find any file operation (such as create a database, or any export feature) that does successfully write to such a filename ?

If so, i can identify/debug or possibly modify the pgn write routine.

[Steven]

Ok, i see Fulvio has fixed it on Scid.
Maybe someone can port this (preferably without the C++20 - isms.
I can't test it on my system , for some reason there is no bug here.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 steve 817 Nov 4 21:46 Bjørn Dæhlie vs Ådne Søndrål.pgn