Abbrevia doesn't add files that have special characters in the path
name
lazarus / 31-LCL

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JanRoza · 2014-03-20 12:21

I have been testing my application which uses Abbrevia for zipping
files, but found that Abbrevia only works correctly as long as there
are no special characters in the path name of the files to be zipped.
I've been going thru the Abbrevia sources and found the occasional
place where FileExists still was used so I've changed those places to
using FileExistsUTF8 and recompiled Abbrevia.
But unfortunately Abbrevia still skips all files with the paths that
contain special characters.
Is there anyone with deeper knowledge of Abbrevia who knows how to
correct this problem?

I'm using Lazarus 1.3 (44361) and FPC 2.6.2 on a Windows 8.1 computer.

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tudi_x · 2014-03-25 23:51

I am using Abbrevia v. 5.0 on a zipping project.
I just tried to zip a file with parenthesizes with no issues.
What are the characters identified by you?

Environment:
Lazarus 1.2
FPC 2.6.2
Windows XP 32 bit

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JanRoza · 2014-03-26 06:56

Just to be clear, the problem occurs when using special characters in
the path name not in the file name. When for instance the path is
E:\My Documents\Tësting everything from other folders get zipped but
the content of E:\My Documents\Tësting never makes it into the zip
file.
In debug I see the AddFiles operations of Abbrevia go okay and even
the Save operation gives no errors or warnings but still files from
the afore mentioned path cannot be found in the zip file afterwards.

Scanning thru the Abbrevia sources I still see a lot of places where
DirExists, FileExists and so on are used. I changed these to
DirExistsUTF8, FileExistsUTF8 just to make sure and recompiled
Abbrevia. Although the Abbrevia package recompiled with no problem my
project will not compile anymore complaining about abbrevia.ppu and
abbrevia.pas not found and CRC errors. When checking the .pas and .ppu
files do exist in the location the error message gives. So I gave up
changing Abbrevia itself as I obviously have insufficient knowledge of
changing packages.

So any help is welcome.