[OGo-Developer] encoding of pllist files

[Helge Hess]

On 30.01.2008, at 07:51, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> while trying to get ogo running against gunstep-base, I figured out  
> that
> there are problems with regards to the encodings of installed plist  
> files,
> e.g. WebUI/OGoWebMail.lso/Resources/Defaults.plist. This file contains
> umlauts. The file tool says it is a: ISO-8859 C++ program text, with  
> very
> long lines. Without using recode, to recode this file to UTF-8,

... just recode them to UTF-8 in your GS branch. I think both  
templates and .strings files in OGo are already converted to UTF-8.

> #4  0xb758ed93 in _NSFoundationUncaughtExceptionHandler
> (exception=0x9462d18) at NSException.m:719
> #5  0xb758f50b in -[NSException raise] (self=0x9462d18,  
> _cmd=0xb797a128) at
> NSException.m:859

What is the exception?
   frame 5
   po self

Well, probably some syntax error.

> I've no idea, whether all plist files should be encoded this way

Usually plist files should contain no umlauts and are plain ASCII. If  
they *do* contain umlauts, we should make them UTF-8.
(would require a conversion in NGParsePropertyListFromBuffer() which  
is non-Unicode anyways [but UTF-8 would work for German umlauts])

Helge
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