[Owncloud] Can someone with knowledge of file saving loading have a look at this?

Thomas Tanghus thomas at tanghus.net
Tue Jun 19 14:58:34 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 19 June 2012 15:01 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On 19.06.2012 14:41, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> > Some weird character encoding error I can't reproduce:
> > 
> > "I tried two different owncloud server configurations, while trying to
> > rule
> > out if this is a server problem or not.
> > 
> > First Setup: Cent OS 6.2 Server, apache/MySQL Second Setup: Windows 2003
> > R2
> > Server, apache/MySQL (Regional options ->  all Greek)
> > 
> > Both servers had exactly the same problem - files with filenames in Greek
> > are shown in the web interface properly and they also sync and download,
> > but they are saved with a strange filename in the server's file system.
> 
> Hmm, as I see in the bug below, you already checked the system encodings.
> Maybe the MySQL database is NOT set the UTF-8?  It seems that the MySQL
> database is not UTF-8 by default but has to be created like this:

I asked them to change the collation manually in comment #1 to rule that out.

> CREATE DATABASE `Sample_DB` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE
> utf8_general_ci;

I did try to merge the request below, but it apparently failed because of sql 
syntax error. I don't know how to make sure existing tables are updated to 
using utf-8, and to be honest I don't want to mess with the db setup code :-P

https://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud/merge_requests/120

> http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-1017
>

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Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus



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