[SourceJammer-devel] Re: SourceJammer and Encoding

[Robert M. <rob...@ya...>]

Hi, Marcelo.

Glad to hear from you again. I recognized your name as soon as I saw it.

What you're saying sounds possible, but I'm not sure it's necessary. I've never noticed that using
ISO-8859-1 corrupts Windows files. Can anyone out there tell me if I'm wrong about that?

Unfortunately, if you decide you want this change, you'll probably have to implement it yourself.
I really can't make any promises at this point about when I'll (finally) get around to developing
new SJ functionality.

--Rob



--- Marcelo Saldanha <sal...@on...> wrote:

> 
>    Hello, Robert!
> 
>    It's been a while since my last e-mail. I'm the one who did that 
> little translation tool, ages ago...
> 
>    Now I'm back, and have a little question for you: Is it possible for 
> SJ to use different encoding charsets for differente files? I had 
> configured SJ server to store text files in UTF-8, since most of my 
> files are on Linux, and are UTF-8. Now I need to store some Delphi files 
> and it seems that these files are ISO-8859-1.
> 
>    Well, my big problem is that this situation forces SJ to be mutually 
> exclusive regarding the charsets. That is, I can either store using 
> UTF-8 and have my Windows files corrupted or store using ISO-8859-1 and 
> corrupt my Linux files. I thought of setting up two servers, but that 
> would be too much of a hammer solution, and I'm trying to avoid that.
> 
>    I can think of three possible solutions for this:
>    1) SJ could use a specific encoding charset (utf8 or iso8859-1) for 
> storing the text file, but also storing what encoding the user wants the 
>   file to use. This way, during the Get SJ would convert the file 
> between the storage and user charsets.
>    2) SJ could store each file it its own encoding charset, eliminating 
> the need of conversion.
>    3) Combine the two above: SJ would store the file on its own 
> encoding,  but also allow conversion (other users might want the file 
> with a different encoding).
> 
>    I hope you can help me find a solution for this problem.
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
> ===============================
>    Marcelo Saldanha
>    Ciência da Computação - UFMG
> 



		
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