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When burning a non-video DVD, some files are inaccesable after the burn. Here is the folder name:

 

Roxy Music?Glasgow 2001-06-11 (SECC Arena)

 

The burned folder on the DVD has a little square character in place of the first "?". If you look closely at that character, it is slightly longer than the standard dash/minus sign (as shown later in the folder name). So, I believe that the character is part of an extended character set, not the standard ASCII character set.

 

When I click on the folder on the DVD, I can see the files, but if I try to open any of them, nothing happens. This is true when using Build mode with the UDF file system and with UDF + ISO9600 file systems.

 

My setup: Windows XP, service pack 2. ImgBurn 2.1.

 

So, here is my question: Is there anyway to force ImgBurn to handle the extended character set correcly? Thanks!

Edited by roylayer
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v2.1.0.0 only handles ansi characters I'm afraid.

 

The next release supports unicode.

 

It's unusual that a normal looking file name like that would fail though.

 

Why isn't it just named using a minus sign in the first place?!

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Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, I think that the "fat minus sign" is very strange too! Unfortunately, that is only the tip of the iceberg. I will also have folders with city names like Munich (except spelled with the unicode symbol with 2 dots above the u.) and other unicode characters like that.

 

Any idea when the new version will be released? (I am a developer myself, so I know how much you must hate getting a question like that.) ;-) Many thanks for a great tool!

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All I can say is that it's in testing! When we're happy it's at least semi bug free (I had to change a lot to get unicode working), it'll be released.

 

Best I can offer right now is 'November' !

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Great! I am sure that changing something as basic as the supported character set would cause all sorts of nighmares in coding. I'm probably can't even begin to imagine! Thanks again.

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It's more a problem using all the 'W' API functions rather than the 'A' ones.

 

I didn't want to just define 'unicode' for the app globally because that would break Win9x support so I've had to write wrapper fuctions for everything.

 

The GUI side of things was handled by using TntUnicode components - without those it wouldn't have ever been possible! - Borland development apps are entirely ANSI. :(

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Best I can offer right now is 'November' !
But which November is the question :D :D :D

 

Regards

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It's more a problem using all the 'W' API functions rather than the 'A' ones.

 

I didn't want to just define 'unicode' for the app globally because that would break Win9x support so I've had to write wrapper fuctions for everything.

 

The GUI side of things was handled by using TntUnicode components - without those it wouldn't have ever been possible! - Borland development apps are entirely ANSI. :(

:worthy: Lightning_UK! :worthy:

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