[sword-devel] In Windows command shell, diatheke search is restricted to ASCII for the query key!

[Manfred Bergmann]

This wchar in Windows is UTF-16.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff381407(v=vs.85).aspx


Manfred


> Am 02.03.2017 um 19:51 schrieb Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>:
> 
> My only thought is that Windows doesn't use UTF-8 internally (it uses UTF-16), while Sword assumes and demands UTF-8. Perhaps diatheke just blindly consumes its input as UTF-8, and goes along its merry way?
> 
> --Greg
> 
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:48 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> It was worth a test inside cygwin and the result was also a fail:
> 
> $ xiphos/diatheke -b KJV -s regex -k Æneas
> Verses containing "ãneas"-- none (KJV)
> 
> I tried it with this too, and that fare no better:
> 
> $ utils/diatheke -b KJV -s phrase -k Æneas
> Verses containing "ãneas"-- none (KJV)
> 
> That's my link to where the utils from our ftpmirror had been downloaded.
> 
> Is it even worth installing PowerShell ?
> 
> I'm beginning to think that diatheke.exe was never designed to cope with
> non-ASCII searches.
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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