Bug: Ctrl-B and unicode filenames (6.52)

[jj05]

When pressing Ctrl-B (Directory branch: Show contents of current dir and all subdirs in one list), unicode files in the current directory are displayed fine, but all the unicode filenames in the subdirectories are displayed as "?????".

[Clo]

2jj05
Hello, welcome aboard!

- I tested a dir containing Unicode text-files as *.unicode with 6.52: all file-names are displayed properly. But yet, it's under Win 98 SE which doesn't support Unicode fully really… Please, give a glance there.
- Please, tell us what is the O.S. you are running, the language in which the file-names are written, and the language of Windows…

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[jj05]

I'm using Win2000 SP4 English. The filenames are in Hebrew.
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[Peled]

I am using Win 2000 too, and have no problem to see my Hebrew file names While making a <CTRL>B to see all files of sub directories.
So maybe you need to chage the font you are using. Mine is "Tahoma"
And yes it is 6.52 I am using.

[sapiens]

I am using Win 2000 too, and have no problem to see my Hebrew file names While making a <CTRL>B to see all files of sub directories.
So maybe you need to chage the font you are using. Mine is "Tahoma"
And yes it is 6.52 I am using.

are you using a hebrew localization of w2k? Or did you set Hebrew as default language for non-unicode characters?
I have the same problem as original poster on a german w2k (german as default lang.) using russian chars in file/dir names. An example:

<dir0>
|-<dir1> // name contains russian chars
| |-<file>
| |-<file>
|
|-<dir2> // name contains only latin/german chars
| |-<file1> // name contains russian chars
|
|-<file2> // name contains russian chars

I am in dir0 and press ctrl+B:
- no files from dir1 will be listed
- file1 will be listed, all russian chars. will be displayed as '?'
- file2 will be displayed properly

however, I have noticed this behaviour only yet, I never use ctrl+B in my music folders.

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed Unicode file names aren't currently supported in branch view. The problem is that the current path (which is used in thousands of places) is not current unicode-capable, so relative dirs cannot support Unicode names, sorry.

[Peled]

are you using a hebrew localization of w2k? Or did you set Hebrew as default language for non-unicode charact

Well, I assume it is what you refer to as a localized, Since all menus are in English, even the "MS Office" menu is in English, but it will run Hebrew files.
This is the common way we work in Israel in business environment.
Only kids at home will have a full Hebrew menu driven version, Mainly XP.

"hebrew is a nice languge for the Bible, not for business..."

B.T.W
I was not familiar with the ,CTRL>B function, Thank you for pointing it out for us.