[Gretl-users] An error occurs when I open a *.gdt under a none-ASCII named directory

[yinung at Gmail]

Dear Allin

Thanks, I just install the CVS for Windows and confirm that the previous
error regarding opening files with Chinese names now work fine.

However, another (maybe similiar reasons) problem occurs when I tried to
save the session files. This time, I tried english filenames as well as
Chinese filenames . Both do not work. The error message says:

.my_session\session.xml: No such file or directory

Yi-Nung


2009/4/24 Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu>

> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, yinung at Gmail wrote:
>
> > I just tested the CVS (buil on 2009-04-23). It now can open a file with
> > Chinese name and under a Chinese subdirectory without errors.
> >
> > However, I encounter another error. When I use [File/Open Data] and
> choose a
> > "recently" opened file. An error occurs (both with  Chinese name and
> under a
> > Chinese subdirectory). It reports that
> > "Couldn't open file C:/.../coeffs1.gdt"
> > (As shown in the attached PDF)
> >
> > After several testings, It is obvious the gretl mis-specifies the path
> when
> > there are some Chinese characters in the subdirectory as well in
> filenames.
> >
> > I also found this error only occured when I quit gretl and restart it
> again.
> > That is, I can open and re-open (choosing from recently opened files
> list)
> > the file with Chinese names or under a path with Chinese name without any
> > problems if I did not quit gretl.
>
> Thanks for your patience.  I've just put up another snapshot which
> may fix this; I'll try to test it myself later today.
>
> I should perhaps explain what's going on with the change in the
> file selection dialog in gretl.
>
> Up till recently we've been using a "native" Windows file selector
> for gretl on Windows.  This policy dates back to a time when the
> GTK file selection dialog was totally different from the Windows
> one, and would have been a jarring experience for Windows users.
> Nowadays, however, the GTK file selector looks broadly similar to
> the Windows one (but has some nice functionality of its own) and I
> decided to standardize on using the GTK file dialog for all
> platforms.
>
> Clearly, this has brought some temporary problems with filename
> encodings, but hopefully we'll get this sorted out soon.
>
> Allin Cottrell
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