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Bug 351877

Summary: File encoding on Windows
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component: ServerAssignee: Project Inbox <orion.server-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jarthana
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-07-12 12:31:28 EDT 
Orion 0.3, Chrome 13, Firefox 5

Running Orion on localhost:

1. Create a new file, open it in the Orion editor.
2. Input a non-ASCII character. I tried 'É' (U+00C9)
3. Save and reopen the file.
4. The character is mangled.

No matter what encoding I interpret it as (utf-8, windows-1252, etc) it still looks messed up.

This doesn't happen on orionhub or orion.eclipse.org so I assume that it is an issue running the Orion server on Windows.
Comment 1 Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 2011-11-07 02:04:59 EST 
That particular character is supported by ISO-8859-1. However, even when I use that encoding to write, it gets messed up.
Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 2011-11-07 02:07:30 EST 
And I must mention that when I tried few other characters from UTF-8, they looked alright without fiddling with the encoding.
Comment 3 Jay Arthanareeswaran CLA 2011-11-07 03:11:18 EST 
(In reply to comment #1)
> That particular character is supported by ISO-8859-1. However, even when I use
> that encoding to write, it gets messed up.

I must have missed something during the test. When I use the ISO-8859-1, it turns out alright. But strange because I guess ISO-8859-1 is a subset of windows 1252, which is default in windows.
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 15:50:25 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:


https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html
Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 16:03:00 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:


https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html