Funbit
08-22-2009, 04:06 PM
Hello!
I started using Download Studio several days ago, and I like it very much! Everything works perfectly except the only one thing (which prevents me from buying the software :()... It seems that the program doesn't properly handle URL/Filenames containing unicode characters (in UTF-8).
Here is a detailed example. Any major browser (Opera, FF, Chrome etc) are able to handle the following URLs (the first one is in Russian, second - Japanese):
1. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Международный_фонетический_алфавит
2. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語
Here is the screenshot from Opera:
http://funbit.info/img/forums/conceiva/opera-with-opened-utf8-urls.png
The URLs are encoded in UTF-8 (the only proper encoding for the web pages and URLs).
But when I paste the URLs into the DownloadStudio - it breaks the strings:
http://funbit.info/img/forums/conceiva/ds-with-pasted-url12.png
And even "percent-escaped" UTF-8 URLs are transformed into abracadabra (it seems that DownloadStudio uses the current system locale, but for such escapes it should use only UTF-8, according to the RFC).
I don't know, maybe the fix is already in the TODO list (haven't found a similar topic on the forum), but it would be great if DownloadStudio can support unicode. I'm sure many people from all over the world will thank you for that! :)
Best regards,
Anton
I started using Download Studio several days ago, and I like it very much! Everything works perfectly except the only one thing (which prevents me from buying the software :()... It seems that the program doesn't properly handle URL/Filenames containing unicode characters (in UTF-8).
Here is a detailed example. Any major browser (Opera, FF, Chrome etc) are able to handle the following URLs (the first one is in Russian, second - Japanese):
1. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Международный_фонетический_алфавит
2. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語
Here is the screenshot from Opera:
http://funbit.info/img/forums/conceiva/opera-with-opened-utf8-urls.png
The URLs are encoded in UTF-8 (the only proper encoding for the web pages and URLs).
But when I paste the URLs into the DownloadStudio - it breaks the strings:
http://funbit.info/img/forums/conceiva/ds-with-pasted-url12.png
And even "percent-escaped" UTF-8 URLs are transformed into abracadabra (it seems that DownloadStudio uses the current system locale, but for such escapes it should use only UTF-8, according to the RFC).
I don't know, maybe the fix is already in the TODO list (haven't found a similar topic on the forum), but it would be great if DownloadStudio can support unicode. I'm sure many people from all over the world will thank you for that! :)
Best regards,
Anton