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Cubitect / cubiomes-viewer

An efficient graphical Minecraft seed finder and map viewer.
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Bug report: Importing seed lists fails when file path contains Unicode characters #151

Closed Nel-S closed 2 years ago

Nel-S commented 2 years ago

This bug is pretty much what it says on the tin: I currently have a user profile on my laptop whose folder name is a Unicode character (the result of a very poor choice on my part when I first bought the laptop), and any attempts to import seed lists from said user profile results in a "Failed to load 64-bit seed list from file: [PATH]" error message, while the same file is able to be loaded from any other directory. The bug has a relatively simple workaround in the meantime--simply save the file elsewhere--but it would be nice to save the lists alongside my other data if this is ever able to be fixed.

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(If that feature is imported from another repository instead of being hard-coded in the program, let me know and I'll submit this bug report there instead.)

Cubitect commented 2 years ago

Text encoding is a deep rabbit hole. A major problem is that Windows is the only thing using UTF-16 encoding, while UNIX, the internet and everyone else uses UTF-8, because it's superior in pretty much every way. I expect you will find that a lot of programs will have issues with such characters in filenames, especially since UTF-16 in not compatible with most C standard library functions. In recent years Microsoft implemented a compatibility layer (UTF-8 code pages) which are still not ideal. But I have done what I can to support them now with patch v2.3.2.