Spaces creates problem in Metro

Stephen McConnell mcconnell at dpml.net
Thu Mar 31 15:17:46 EST 2005


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-dpml-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:dev-dpml-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Alexandros Paramythis
> Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 7:42 PM
> To: DPML Development
> Subject: Re: Spaces creates problem in Metro
> 
> Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Makas is reporting the following problem on a Windows system
> > 
> > Apparently spaces in filenames are trouble.
> > 
> 
> This is a (relatively) well-known problem on Windows. It is 
> typically encountered with 'file:' URLs, which do not 
> properly encode spaces in several cases.
> 
> The available solutions, if I recall correctly are:
> 
> * If the URL gets created from a File object, and it is known 
> that one ultimately needs a URI, then one can invoke 
> f.toURI() instead of f.toURL(). Apparently, the former 
> performs the encoding properly.

Solution applied to both the composition testcase handler and the metro unit
utility.

Cheers, Steve.




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