German Umlaute

[bigmike]

thanks for this nice quickpar alternative!!!

i am using 1.80 + 1.81 since today and found, that when iam using repair or check only, filenames with "german umlaute, (öüä) are miss renamed :(
So ein schöner Tag -->So ein sch�ner Tag
iam using german windows 7 64bit
hope for an fix someday :)

[Yutaka Sawada]

filenames with "german umlaute, ... are miss renamed :(

 What PAR2 client did you used to make the PAR2 files ? Because MultiPar & par2_tbb contain non-ascii filename by UTF-8 encoding, QuickPar can not recognize it properly. Also, MultiPar & par2_tbb can not recognize PAR2 files with non-ascii filename without UTF-8. I don't know what other PAR2 clients do for non-ascii filename. As QuickPar accepts some non-ascii characters, it may make compatibility problem. If you used MultiPar to create, and it can not verify, that is a bug. Will you send me a PAR2 file (smallest index file only) to check the encoding ?

[bigmike]

i only use quickpar/Multipar to verify and repair files. if i using quickpar the "umlaute" keeps correct
i will uploading the smallest par2 to you, no problem if you say me how to upload to you!

[Yutaka Sawada]

 QuickPar seems to write non-ASCII characters by system dependent code page. That may be Latin-1 (1252) for German OS. That is Shift-JIS (932) for Japanese OS. Then, those characters by QuickPar is not shown properly on different code page. (that is correct only for same code page.)

 It is very difficult to determine which code page was used, when the PAR2 file was created. I made sample to check encoding is UTF-8 or not. I will improve or just detect QuickPar's PAR2 and convert encoding.

 You can upload files in reply at "Additional Options..." below of input field. I attach two files for test. That Japanese filenames in PAR2 file by QuickPar will not shown correctly on your PC.

[bigmike]

ok, here is the sample.par2

[persicum]

Yutaka!
Russisch characters display well both in QuickPAR and MultiPAR_1.1.8.2. This is ANSI codepage

[Yutaka Sawada]

from persicum

This is ANSI codepage

 Thank you for testing. This problem will be fixed on next version 1.1.8.2. If bigmike wants to test before public release, send mail to me. When you see correct characters on QuickPar, those characters will be shown correctly on MultiPar, too.