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

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 23/11/09 11:47, Abhijit Nath wrote:
> On 11/23/09 16:55, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > 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.

Ah I see. Well, the tracker-0.6 branch is quite different from 0.6.95. 
We have released something like 23 versions internally for Maemo since 
that release.

> > > > > 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).

I don't think so. At least not with 0.6.x. Did you have a chance to try 
0.7. and see if the same issue exists there?

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Regards,
Martyn