Swedish Characters in VB

[zehd]

I had a question in the ZProcess sub-forum:

Originally Posted by mcfrojd
Zprocess wount transcode the programs with the swedish charters åäö ÅÄÖ in the filename.

When adding the line to the quene it ok.
"C:\TV INSPELNINGAR\House_20061114_16001700.mpg"
"C:\TV INSPELNINGAR\Trälen_20061114_19302000.mpg"


but when running the transcodeQ.bat file, Zprocess seems to rename the swedish charters to someting else...
2006-11-15 01:00:01 : **************************** :
2006-11-15 01:00:01 : ZProcess is started. :
2006-11-15 01:00:01 : ZProcess closes : C:\TV INSPELNINGAR\Trõlen_20061114_19302000.mpg

2006-11-15 01:00:02 : **************************** :

resulting in the mpg file wount get transcoded to avi

It's been a long time since I coded with consideration for character sets. I used to make my apps bilingual with Japanese, (although that's a double-byte character set)

I wouldn't have thought there would be any problem with swedish characters. But apparently there is.

Any string manipulation is pretty much straight-through passes, but I think there are a couple of string compares I use that convert both strings to either ucase or lcase, to make the string compare case insensitive...

Has anyone seen VB or even batch files, take a 'ä' character and convert it to a 'õ' character ?

I suspect that it's a matter of conflicting character sets, in the regional setting of the computer, and not actually a coding problem...

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[stefan]

To me that looks just like a problem you get when you use us-ascii in one end, and iso-8859-1 in the other... (or vice versa).