[ros-dev] reactos.inf

Stefan Naumann snaumann2912 at yahoo.de
Thu May 2 18:32:21 UTC 2013


Why does someone save an single "8" as unicode in reactos.inf-File? 
Sound broken to me. I'm on it, might be my iniparser as well, but it's 
pretty strange that only the 8 = bin\cache is effected. the 6 = inf 
might not be broken at all. This is not the cause for my program 
crashing - repeatedly.

Am 02.05.2013 19:01, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
> Sounds like you're trying to print out unicode characters as ascii.
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912 at yahoo.de 
> <mailto:snaumann2912 at yahoo.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello.
>
>     I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show
>     some difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds; mainly
>     reactos.inf:
>
>     My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and
>     copies files to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm
>     talking about the server's side). It seems that reactos.inf
>     contains pretty weird data; opening reactos.inf with gedit shows
>     it intact; reading it with the program gets the following things
>     out (shortened):
>
>     " -- 6 -->cache/files/��� "
>
>     should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the path of
>     all cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.
>
>     and (in the same context):
>
>     "
>     -- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
>     -- 6 = inf
>     -- 7 = bin
>     -- �Í = bin\data
>     -- 9 = media
>     -- 10 = Microsoft.NET
>     "
>
>     ("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).
>
>     Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please fix that
>     or let me know whether I should think about doing something
>     differently. I'm working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04 amd64 -
>     always getting latest dbg-BootCD-ISO.
>
>     Thanks peope.
>
>     Regards Stefan Naumann
>
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