Bug 29554 - Special Characters Cause Failure Opening File
Summary: Special Characters Cause Failure Opening File
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2003-01-15 13:29 EST by Wesley Wright CLA
Modified: 2003-01-16 06:10 EST (History)
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2003-01-15 14:06 EST, Barry Searle CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Wesley Wright CLA 2003-01-15 13:29:14 EST 
When a file contains certain special characters it seems that the WSAD 4.0 UI is
unable to open the file at all.  An internal exception occurs and the console
output displays:
   Unhandled exception caught in event loop.
   Reason:

In particular the character à and · seem to cause problems when the LANG
environment variable is set to en_US.UTF-8.

To test this, first ensure you set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and export the variable. 
Then run the GUI and attempt to open the offending file.  If the encoding is set
to a latin-1 base (i.e., en_US.iso885915) then the GUI seems to be able to open
the file just fine.

I will attach a sample workspace.
Comment 1 Barry Searle CLA 2003-01-15 14:06:11 EST 
Created attachment 2993 [details]
has non-enlish special characters

send on behalf of Wesley Wright
Comment 2 Kai-Uwe Maetzel CLA 2003-01-16 06:10:58 EST 
Cannot reproduce on build I20030107. This build is part of the Eclipse 2.1 
stream. There is no maintance on 1.0.