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Re: Open Recent Character Bug

Posted by NeLaS on May 30, 2007; 3:54pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Open-Recent-Character-Bug-tp3699274p3699276.html

Hi,

What operating system do you use?
>

ops, forgot to tell, I'm on linux

maybe you could help tracing down the bug by looking at the IJ_Prefs.txt
> file (Windows: In the ImageJ folder, Mac: in $home/Library/Preferences)
> and see what the recent00 etc. items look there?
>

I could not find IJ_Prefs.txt, is it present in linux version?

cheers

bruno

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On 5/30/07, Michael Schmid <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> maybe you could help tracing down the bug by looking at the IJ_Prefs.txt
> file (Windows: In the ImageJ folder, Mac: in $home/Library/Preferences)
> and see what the recent00 etc. items look there?
>
> To detect non-printable characters, it would be best to use an
> editor that can display hex characters such as Notepad++ or a
> hexdump facility.
>
> On my Mac, I cannot open such a file from the 'Recent' menu after
> restarting ImageJ; the "í" character gets converted to a question
> mark when stored in IJ_Prefs.txt, but it is only ONE question mark.
>
> What operating system do you use?
>
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> On 30 May 2007, at 15:19, NeLaS wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I believe I'm experiencing a bug for character enconding.
> >
> > Some of my folders contain characters like "í". When opening a file
> > within a
> > folder with this type of character it opens normally, and if I
> > close and
> > open it using "open recent" feature the path is ok and the file
> > opens again.
> > However, if I restart imagej and try to open the same file the path is
> > corrupted. For example.
> >
> > /share/multimídia/foto.tif
> >
> > after restart it becomes
> >
> > /share/multimÂ#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#Â#Ã#dia/
> > foto.tif
> >
> > (please substitute # for a square...)
> >
> > The size and number of this additional Ã#Â# is variable and last
> > night I
> > waited over 1 hour to load "Open Recent" address, since it seems to
> > enter a
> > loop printing this bad encoded characters until the line becomes a
> > black
> > stripe. Very awful looking :-)
> >
> > I believe I did not have this problem before, but since I update
> > imagej
> > frequently I can't tell in which version this happened (it is not
> > the first
> > time I experience the bug)
> >
> > I'm now using version 1.38t.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > bruno
>