(equest) Asian character support for DiskDir

LordKaos · Post by *LordKaos » 2010-12-02, 00:05 UTC

Hi!

I wish to know if will be possible to get a new version of diskdir that support asian characters in the indexing.

I´m developer too, so If there's some tutorial for plugins and I can get access for the source code of diskdir, I'll try to make it.

See ya.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2010-12-02, 11:09 UTC

I can send you the sources, but the plugin is written in Delphi (Pascal). I plan to port it to Unicode, but the created list files would be incompatible with older versions.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2010-12-02, 11:14 UTC

I think such text plugin may easilly read both ANSI and Unicode files and detect second ones by BOM. Any old version user may use text editor to convert Unicode file to old ANSI.

LordKaos · Post by *LordKaos » 2010-12-02, 12:20 UTC

Ouch, I don´t use delphi =(

I feel useless about this.

What is BOM?

Exist any way that I can write a program in VB and use it like an external compressor (like zip or rar.exe)...in that case, I can make some tries.

So, I think If I call my exe with some parameters as a command line (source dir and destination.lst file), it can work.

Christian, can you send me the source? and I´ll try to understand it.

Thanks!

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2010-12-02, 12:36 UTC

Better Delphi than VB.

If you can write DLL using any language it may be used as plugin.

BOM is byte order marker - it is special 2-3 bytes at the beginning of file that tell to programs that file is e.g. Unicode or UTF-8 encoded.

LordKaos · Post by *LordKaos » 2010-12-02, 13:16 UTC

=) thanks MVV

Then I´ll try to make my best in VB or learn some Delphi (i don´t think that it'll be hard....I learned asp, vb, ,net, jscript and some other only trying =) )... if Christian helps me with the source, then better!

About BOM...I always use that chars but I called them "header"

hamidi · Post by *hamidi » 2012-01-01, 05:52 UTC

hi Chris,
it's a long time we've not been in touch. i remember when we were emailing about Windows Commander capabilities and i would suggest some new features when it was at the beginnings. remember me?
i'm a C++/C# programmer. but i'm not familiar with Pascal or Delphi. i also need support for non-English languages. it causes an error while packing files with non-English names. i'm anxiously waiting for a Unicode version. 16-bit Windows may use a separate plug-in. 32-bit platforms are going to get old man! u still think about 16-bit platforms?

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-01-01, 10:02 UTC

You may ask for Unicode support here, it is extended version of this plugin.