Problem with german Umlaute (ä,ü,ö) in $ZF(-100)

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Robert Hildebrand · May 14, 2021

Hello,

I created a custom business operation to copy PDF files in Intersystems Healthshare. To copy the files I used:

$ZF(-100, "", "cp", "-f", tSource, tTarget)

tSource contains the source file e.g. "/opt/var/data/dir/1821008687135422926_5849146876.pdf".

tTargetSource contains the target file "/opt/targetdir/Müller_Jörg_1821008687.pdf".

Copying files without german Umlaute works fine (e.g Smith_Robert_1821081542.pdf), but when the string contains special characters like "ä", "ö", "ü" or even "ß" copying is not successful.

Do I have to replace the special characters or is there a possibility to change the encoding of the $ZF() function?

Best regards

Robert

Product version: HealthShare 2017.2

$ZV: Cache for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86-64) 2017.2.2 (Build 865_0_18359U) Wed Jul 25 2018 16:08:01 EDT

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Alexey Maslov · May 15, 2021

Converting the file name to UTF8 usually helps. E.g.

USER>s file=$zcvt("/home/qms/Müller_Jörg.txt","o","UTF8") w $zf(-100,"","touch",file)
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qms@testhost:~$ ls -l Müller_Jörg.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 qms cacheusr 0 May 15 18:39 Müller_Jörg.txt

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2021-05-14T09:31:11-04:00

what will show the output of locale command in OS?

So, your filesystem may not accept Unicode. And you would need to convert Unicode to a more suitable codepage.

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2021-05-17T03:08:04-04:00

Robert Hildebrand · May 17, 2021

Thanks . Converting to UTF-8 worked for me.

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