Monday, March 21, 2011

7-zip and archives that contains files with non-English file names

after reading this in the 7-Zip revision history:

- Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes:
1) Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain required symbols.
2) -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols.
3) -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.


I change the link 7-Zip File Manager to use -mcu.

Things now work much better.

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Hebrew (utf8) characters in mysql console over putty

Problem:

I have a mysql server running on a debian linux hosted at linode.com some of my data has hebrew characters (utf8) in it.

I am connecting to the server via putty ssh on windows 7.

But when I run the sql admin console (mysql) and execute a select query all hebrew characters are displayed as '?'.

The data itself wass o.k. (I know this because it is also accessed via a web page where it displays just fine).

Solution:

Step 1. Start mysql with the --defautl-character-set=utf8

If you will now run a query it will properly display the hebrew (and even show it right to left). Only problem is that because of this tables get poorly formated and columns switch places when hebrew is displayed in some of them.

so:

Step 2. Go to the session settings of putty and check "Disable Bidirectional text display" under Terminal-Features.

This will now cause Hebrew to be displayed using Hebrew characters but from left to right. But at least to formatting of the results is readable.

I guess a fix for this could be to render the Unicode Character 'LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK' (U+200E) before each " |" (Pipe) character that separates column results. I wander if this can be customized...




Monday, March 07, 2011

how to set up hot code replacement with tomcat and eclipse

Just so that I have this next time I need to do it.
And maybe you will also find this link helpful.

http://blog.theunical.com/ide-tools/eclipse/how-to-set-up-hot-code-replacement-with-tomcat-and-eclipse/

 
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