#953 closed Enhancement (invalid)
support optional encodings (for torrent names and strings)
| Reported by: | Pragmatic | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | None Set |
| Component: | Transmission | Version: | 1.20 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | encoding |
| Cc: |
Description
some of the torrents I am getting don't use utf-8. they use variants of Traditional and Simplified Chinese. unfortunately, when Transmission adds these torrents to its queue, the strings are displayed as latin garbage. it's possible that the encoding has not been specified within the torrent.
please add an enhancement where if the encoding is not utf-8 or a variant of English, and the encoding is not specified or several different encodings could apply, that the user be allowed to choose which encoding to use. this could possibly be done via an encoding popup menu (with a sample of the consequent torrent name) in the Add Torrent window.
I have attached a sample torrent.
cheers.
Attachments (2)
Change History (8)
Changed 15 years ago by Pragmatic
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 15 years ago by Pragmatic
within the attached torrent is a segment which reads: "ecopy13:comment.utf-810". is utf-810 the encoding?
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 15 years ago by mezz
Replying to Pragmatic:
within the attached torrent is a segment which reads: "ecopy13:comment.utf-810". is utf-810 the encoding?
The BitTorrent? client will reading it as UTF-8 and ignore '10'. The '10' is like a code for seperate. I don't know full BitTorrent? code, but if you check inside torrent more and you will see there are several of numbers ('10', '6' and etc) as for seperate. I am not sure if 'seperate' is a right word for that, so I will let someone to answer it more correct if need.
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by Pragmatic
in this torrent, the encoding in many places (including file names) is not specified. only by experimentation and subjective review can it be established that the encoding is Simplified Chinese EUC.
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by Pragmatic
my apologies. please delete the second attachment. it's identical to the first.
comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by charles
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
a .torrent file's strings are required by the BitTorrent? specification to use the UTF-8 encoding. If these torrents aren't doing so, then they are broken.
a Simplified Chinese torrent file which does not display correctly in Transmission