Re: [Tracker] [Patch] Correct locales support

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:

> They correctly appear with 'g_async_queue_try_pop
> (tracker->file_process_queue)' during process but are not indexed since:
> - info->mtime == info->indextime == 0...
> - action is TRACKER_ACTION_FILE_CHECK
> so index_file() is not called.

this is likely a problem in the stat call - it wont find the file with a 
non-utf8 filename in those cases

The solution would be to use g_filename_from_utf8 
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html) 
  to convert utf8 filename back to user's encoding before calling stat 
and before calling the metadata extraction stuff.

its tricky because we must avoid passing any non utf8 string to any 
other glib function

I dont have time at the moment to fix these as I am at work so patches 
welcome.




> There is also a problem with tracker-search (and I suppose others
> tools): it doesn't support non-ASCII characters in ISO-8859-1.
>
> I set environment as before then run tracker-search in gdb. If I search
> for 'ha' it terminates fine.
> If I search "hÃ" it exits with code 01 and with dbus-monitor I see that
> my query is not sent to trackerd!
>
> Is DBus known to have bugs with non-UTF8 environment?
dont know?

but we should standardise on utf-8 anyhow. I guess tracker-search needs 
to check and convert to utf8 any search strings input. Obviously if we 
dont then they wont match the stuff in the DB.


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