Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan fails to deal with non-Latin usernames(Windows)

[George Sherwood]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:21:52 +0400
"Roman" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Correct. The Cyrillic spelling for "Administrator", according to
> > the few bits of Russian I had in school.
> 
> Correct. I'll post in UTF-8 this time, to improve the chance of
> recognition: Администратор. (the last letter should look like Latin
> p, if it's not, it's another bug 8=])
> 
> And this has nothing to do with news server auth, this is the Windows 
> username. As far as my understanding goes, the problem is as follows.
> GTK+ has all strings in UTF-8, right? And the settings are to be
> saved at C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\.pan2\something. If
> I'm correct, it passes the name to fopen or brethren without
> converting to local encoding (which is cp1251), and hilarity ensues.
> In addition, when I try to read an article, it actually says "Can't
> open file C:\Documents and
> Settings\Администратор\.pan2\article-cache\blahblah".
> 
> I didn't actually dig the source, just an educated guess.
> 

Did you post this in UTF-8 or KO18-R?  Using UTF-8, it doesn't decode
probably.

George

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