Input filenames containing non-ANSI characters?

[dfhtextpipe]

TextPipe replaces each non-ANSI character of the input filename by U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.

This is most undesireable, especially for non-Roman scripts.

But even for accented ASCII letters it does this, so it's a critical limitation on it's capabilities.

Example: Input file:

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04  Niveroù Numbers.doc

became output file

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04  Nivero� Numbers.txt

Is there even a suggested workaround?

David

[DataMystic Support]

Hi David,

Is this with 10.7.2? We have worked to progressively remove any such limitations, so if you can provide an example of where it still lurks, we will take care of it.

Thanks,

Simon

[dfhtextpipe]

Given the date I wrote the above, it's almost certainly 10.7.2

David

[DataMystic Support]

Can you please provide a sample filter?

[dfhtextpipe]

There's nothing special about my filter.

It only needs an input filename with (eg) accented letters to test it.

Any filter would do, even a null filter where the only change is to the output file extension.

And I'm sure that you can easily rename any suitable input file so that in Windows the filename contains an accented letter or two.

David

[DataMystic Support]

This issue is fixed in 10.9.

[dfhtextpipe]

Thanks, Simon.

[dfhtextpipe]

Not yet tested the advised improvement.

David