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Bug #2000: Impossible to search files containing UTF-8 characters

Kind bug
Product Command-T
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter anonymous
Tags no tags

Description

Command-T doesn't let me type UTF-8 (é, á, í, ã and so on) characters in the search input. Also, if I bring the search input in a directory that contains files with these characters, it gives me an error: 

Error detected while processing function <SNR>16_CommandTShowFileFinder:
line    2:
Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8

I'm using the latest GitHub version.

Cheers, Alex Tercete

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    The fact that you can't type non-ASCII at the prompt is a known limitation (bug #1535).

    The thing about the error when in a directory with those characters is new to me though. Let's make this bug for that second issue, and keep bug #1535 for the prompt limitation.

  2. Mike Miller

    Until it's possible to enter unicode characters (though in my case, the unicode is a small part of the file name and is not essential for locating it), can you suggest a workaround that will allow Command-T to continue scanning other directories? Currently, it seems to abort all processing.

  3. anonymous

    I ran into this issue as I had some directories with German names and some umlaut characters. 

    Error detected while processing function commandt#CommandTShowFileFinder:
line    2:
Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible encoding regexp match (UTF-8 regexp with ASCII-8BIT string)

    Maybe some error handling is needed to report that some files or directories could not be listed, without aborting.

  4. anonymous Created , edited

    The main problem is that by doing approximate matching Command-T is hitting directories and files with names that trip it up. The following message appears: 

    Error detected while processing function CommandTListMatches:
line    1:
Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible encoding regexp match (UTF-8 regexp with ASCII-8BIT string)

    It's unclear which name caused this, but even if you have a guess there is little one can do to prevent it.

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