Bug in Panther with accented character in remote machine's name.
Bug in Panther with accented character in remote machine's name.
- Subject: Bug in Panther with accented character in remote machine's name.
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:48:36 +0100
Hello.
It has been reported here already that under OSX AppleScript won't work properly if the name of your hard disk includes an accented character.
We just found that under Panther (not under Jaguar) AppleScript won't work properly on files which belong to a machine whose name includes an accented character - even while the volume you mounted does not include anything special in its name.
In other words:
- [purchase two machines A & B]
- [install Panther on machine A]
- rename your machine A into a name including an accented character (for obvious reasons I can't give an example on this list), e acute, c cedilla, u umlaut or whatever,
- mount, e.g., A's user's volume on your machine B's desktop,
- in B write a droplet which, e.g., attempts to display dialog (name of (get info for the dropped file))
- drop a file from A on the droplet: the droplet crashes.
Other manifestations of the bug include:
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alias "remote_volume:my_file"
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compiling into the following scary expression:
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alias "/Network/remote_machine_name/remote_volume/my_file"
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(To be sure I'm clear, this happens only if remote_machine_name includes an accented character)
We observed the bug both under 10.3.1 and 10.3.2.
Emmanuel
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