Re: [Tracker] Inconsistency with tracker-search-tool results

[Abhijit Nath <Abhijit Nath Sun COM>]

On 11/23/09 16:55, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 23/11/09 08:24, Abhijit Nath wrote:
> > On 11/23/09 13:22, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > On 06/11/09 06:29, Abhijit Nath wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > I have recently started using tracker (0.6.95).
> > > > I'm facing one issue with tracker-search and tracker-search-tool with
> > > > files which has accented characters in filenames.
> > > > tracker-search(-tool) when used with ISO8859 locales doesn't return
> > > > right results.
> > > > In result field, it return only files that don't content accents. But
> > > > nautilus is able to show the file names.
> > > > I have checked in the source code and it seems,
> > > > tracker_db_result_set_iter_next() returns FALSE in case of accented 
> > > > file
> > > > names.
> > >
> > > Hmm. I don't suppose you're using the tracker-0.6 branch are you?
> > Yes. I'm using tracker-0.6.95 branch.
>
> You mean the tag right? There is no branch with that name. Only 
> "tracker-0.6".
Sorry ... Actually the tarball version of tracker is 0.6.95. But it is 
basically tracker-0.6.
> > > > Is it a correct behavior? If not, should i raise a defect in bugzilla?
> > >
> > > I would like to see if this is fixed in the tracker-0.6 branch already
> > > before doing that.
> > It is not fixed in 0.6.95 branch and earlier. I have checked the source
> > code and it seems, trackerd reads the files (with ISO8859-1 characters
> > in it) correctly but in file tracker-crawler.c it uses g_utf8_validate
> > () to validate the files.
> > And it get failed there. I have removed the checks but still it is not
> > showing proper result. So there should be some other issue also
> > (probably sqlite).
>
> Hmm, well, if it is not correct UTF-8, then all bets are off.
> Our databases expect UTF-8 only i'm afraid.

Ok...Is there any plan to support non utf-8  in tracker in coming releases?
Actually if i build tracker with the tarball version 0.6.6 (before the 
sqlite implementation, i guess), tracker support non utf-8 characters 
(with some issues).

Thanks,
Abhijit