Understand what encoding SketchUp 8?

[sahi]

SketchUp 5
path = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\моя модель.skp"
encode_to_utf-8 path
model.save path -> works
Sketchup.open_file path -> works

SketchUp 8
path = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\моя модель.skp"
encode_to_utf-8 path
model.save path -> does not work
Sketchup.open_file path -> works

What encoding supports Sketchup 8 to save the model?

[yorik1984]

Maybe
path = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\моя\ модель.skp"
or 'C:\Users\Admin\Documents\моя модель.skp'

[jolran]

Maybe / ?

[sahi]

Problem in "Cyrillic"

"Cyrillic" in utf-8

Sketchup 5 and reads and stores

Skutchup 6 7 8 only reads but does not save.

Skutchup 6 7 8 reads "Cyrillic" in utf-8

And when you save what encoding uses (cp1252 cp866??????)

[thomthom]

I wrote about SketchUp and Unicode a while back: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20657

Summary:
Ruby 1.8 does not understand Unicode strings - it treat each byte as a character.
Ruby 1.8 under Windows cannot read/write, handle files with multi-byte characters. Needs to be ASCII characters. This is because Ruby calls the A (ASCII) versions of the file system function instead of the W (Wide characters - unicode) versions.
Ruby 1.8 under OSX is able to open unicode files.

[thomthom]

Oh - you're using the open and save model functions of the API. Ah - now that is interesting. I'd expect, at least the recent version to use UTF-8.

[sahi]

I wrote this script to

Perhaps what is in it and is not correct.
But Ruby is well aware of it, let's

string = File.join (File.dirname (FILE), "Моя папка"))

string = encode_to_cp1251 (string)

Dir.mkdir (string) -> works fine

And as Sketchup 5 works great

A Sketchup 6 7 8 only read but can not green triangle icon

Encodes from cp1251 to utf-8
And a coding of utf-8 cp1251 (Cyrillic)

In SketchUp 5 everything works fine

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encode_utf-8_cp1251