13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
2:54 p.m.
On Dec 13, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
But even today, I'm surprised by some Windows
utilities that will
choke on a filename made up of Cyrillic characters, for example--or
not know how to display it.
Bah, and the number of tools that won't cope with pathnames with spaces in them,
especially on Windows. Up until a year or so ago, the Xilinx tools wouldn't even
install if the installer was located in a path with a space in it (such as
"C:\Documents and Settings\..."). It would actually just silently fail to
launch the installer, which made me think I had a corrupt installer file or something.
It's especially irritating because it worked better before that.
I realize this is a somewhat different issue, but it's a pain. A more related one was
that Photoshop 7 on OS X would fail in a bizarre way if the volume it was launched from
had non-ASCII characters in the name (in my case, it was "Se?or Disk").
- Dave