The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

    Mastodon

  • Twitter Updates

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,839 other subscribers

Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »

git encoding trouble: recursively removing a directory where git prints out a different name than it accepts

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/11

The story so far:

A few years back I put all my conferences material in a GitHub repository https://github.com/jpluimers/Conferences/. There were a lot directories and files so I didn’t pay much attention to the initial check-in list. The files had been part of copy.com syncing between Windows and Mac machines.

Often git on a Mac is a bit easier than on Windows (on a Mac you can install them with the xcode-select --install trick which installs only the Command Line Tools without having to install the full Xcode [WayBack]).

I choose a Mac because it is closer to a Linux machine than Widows so I expected no encoding trouble (as git has a Linux origin: it “was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel“).

Boy I was wrong:

Recently I cloned the repository in a different place and found out a few strange things:

  1. Directories with accented characters had been duplicated, for instance in https://github.com/jpluimers/Conferences/tree/master/2011
    1. …/EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D%FCsseldorf
    2. …/EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-Düsseldorf
  2. Beyond Compare would show the same content
  3. After a check-out git would not understand the %FC encoded directory name (%FC is IEC_8859-1 encoding for ü and \374 is the octal representation of 0xFC [WayBack]) and a git status would show stuff like this: 
    • Untracked files:
  (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)

    EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D%FCsseldorf/

      or

      deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Debugging/BO-EKON15-Delphi-XE2-Debugging.pdf"
  4. A git rm -r --cached call [WayBack] would not work, as both these would fail: 
    • $ git rm -r --cached EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D%FCsseldorf
fatal: pathspec 'EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D%FCsseldorf' did not match any files

      and

      $ git rm -r --cached "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf"
fatal: pathspec 'EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf' did not match any files
  5. a

So git could:

  • detect the directories and files
  • display the names of the detected directories and files
  • not translate back the specified names into directories and files

All if this was with:

$ git --version
git version 1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)

This is how I fixed it

First I created an alias:

alias git-config="echo global: ; git config --list --global ; echo local: ; git config --lis --local ; echo system: ; git config --list --system"

That allowed me to view the git settings on various levels in my system.

It revealed I didn’t have the core.precomposeunicode setting at all (valid values are true or false). I also read various stories about one or both being the correct value: osx – Git and the Umlaut problem on Mac OS X – Stack Overflow [WayBack].

 

 

–jeroen

Result of git status:


$ git status .
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add/rm <file>…" to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout — <file>…" to discard changes in working directory)
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Debugging/BO-EKON15-Delphi-XE2-Debugging.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Unit-Testing/BO-EKON15-Delphi-XE2-Unit-Testing.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-0-sample-code.txt"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-1-Delphi-64bit.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-2-LiveBindings-DataBinding.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-3-Delphi-VCL Styles.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-4-Delphi-FireMonkey.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-Workshop/BO-EKON15-2011-XE2-Wokshop-5-Delphi-FireMonkey-xPlatform.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/Delphi-XE2-and-XML/BO-EKON15-2011-Delphi-XE2-and-XML.pdf"
deleted: "EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D\374sseldorf/XSL-transforming-XML/BO-EKON15-2011-XSL-transforming-XML.pdf"

view raw

git-status-does-not-like-accented-characters-on-os-x.txt

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

 

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Encoding, git, ISO-8859, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

URLs and domains that OS-es use to detect Captive Portals

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/11

OS X

Android / Chromebook:

  • clients3.google.com

iOS 6:

  • gsp1.apple.com
  • *.akamaitechnologies.com

iOS 7:

  • www.appleiphonecell.com
  • www.airport.us
  • *.apple.com.edgekey.net
  • *.akamaiedge.net
  • *.akamaitechnologies.com

iOS 8/9:

Windows

Amazon Kindle (Fire)

OS X settings are in:

  • /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/CaptiveNetworkSupport/Settings.plist

--jeroen

via:

Posted in Captive Portal, Communications Development, Development, Hardware, Internet, Internet protocol suite, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Software Development, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Applications that scale badely on High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – via: SQLServerCentral

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/10

Many applications still scale badly on High-DPI displays: dialogs way too small, icons you need a microscope for, etc.

SSMS in High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – SQLServerCentral explains a great trick that works for many applications, for intance:

The trick comes down to enabling the PreferExternalManifest registry setting and then create a manual manifest for the application that forces the application to use “bitmap scaling” by basically telling it does not support “XP style DPI scaling”.

You name manifest file named after the exe and stored it in the same directory as the exe.

After that, you also have to rename the exe to a temporary name and then back in order to refresh the cache.

A quote from the trick:

In Windows Vista, you had two possible ways of scaling applications: with the first one (the default) applications were instructed to scale their objects using the scaling factor imposed by the operating system. The results, depending on the quality of the application and the Windows version, could vary a lot. Some scaled correctly, some other look very similar to what we are seeing in SSMS, with some weird-looking GUIs. In Vista, this option was called “XP style DPI scaling”.

The second option, which you could activate by unchecking the “XP style” checkbox, involved drawing the graphical components of the GUI to an off-screen buffer and then drawing them back to the display, scaling the whole thing up to the screen resolution. This option is called “bitmap scaling” and the result is a perfectly laid out GUI.

In order to enable this option in Windows 10, you need to merge this key to your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide]
"PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000001

Then, the application has to be decorated with a manifest file that instructs Windows to disable DPI scaling and enable bitmap scaling, by declaring the application as DPI unaware. The manifest file has to be saved in the same folder as the executable (ssms.exe) and its name must be ssms.exe.manifest. In this case, for SSMS 2014, the file path is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Ssms.exe.manifest”.

Paste this text inside the manifest file and save it in UTF8 encoding:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT" version="9.0.21022.8" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<asmv3:application>
<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings"&gt;
<ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware&gt;
</asmv3:windowsSettings>
</asmv3:application>
</assembly>

view raw

ssms.exe.manifest

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

This “Vista style” bitmap scaling is very similar to what Apple is doing on his Retina displays, except that Apple uses a different font rendering algorithm that looks better when scaled up. If you use this technique in Windows, ClearType rendering is performed on the off-screen buffer before upscaling, so the final result might look a bit blurry.The amount of blurriness you will see depends on the scale factor you set in the control panel or in the settings app in Windows 10. Needless to say that exact pixel scaling looks better, so prefer 200% over 225% or 250% scale factors, because there is no such thing as “half pixel”.

–jeroen

Source: SSMS in High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – SQLServerCentral

Posted in Database Development, Delphi, Development, Eclipse IDE, Encoding, Java, Java Platform, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, SSMS SQL Server Management Studio, UTF-8, UTF8 | 4 Comments »

The Delphi Pipe – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/09

The Delphi Pipe got revived:

The Delphi Pipe is an RSS feed that combines other RSS feeds from various Delphi blogs.

Source: [WayBack] The Delphi Pipe – twm’s blog

Of course there are also [WayBack] DelphiFeeds (which seems unmaintained, but a truckload of people have it in their RSS reader) and [WayBack] BeginEnd.net (slowly but steadily growing).

I wish there was an RSS reader that could filter out duplicate posts so I can just follow all three without reading duplicates.

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »

ext3 – How to tell the language encoding of a filename on Linux? – Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/08

From ext3 – How to tell the language encoding of a filename on Linux? – Server Fault  [WayBack] I learned a few things:

  • filename encoding on Linux is undetermined – the file system just assumes a byte array of characters
  • FTP and SFTP suffer from this as well (SFTP is based on SSH which now prefers UTF-8 [WayBack])

A good default is UTF-8, but it’s never guaranteed.

Two tools can help to determine the encoding of a filename:

  • convmv [WayBack] converts filenames from one encoding to another
  • chardet (Python) The Universal Character Encoding Detector

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8 | Leave a Comment »

reStructuredText Markup Specification – sections (that translate to HTML headings)

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/05

So I won’t forget; source: reStructuredText Markup Specification – Sections

[2]

The following are all valid section title adornment characters:

! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~

Some characters are more suitable than others. The following are recommended:

= - ` : . ' " ~ ^ _ * + #

Rather than imposing a fixed number and order of section title adornment styles, the order enforced will be the order as encountered. The first style encountered will be an outermost title (like HTML H1), the second style will be a subtitle, the third will be a subsubtitle, and so on.

Below are examples of section title styles:

===============
 Section Title
===============

---------------
 Section Title
---------------

Section Title
=============

Section Title
-------------

Section Title
`````````````

Section Title
'''''''''''''

Section Title
.............

Section Title
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Section Title
*************

Section Title
+++++++++++++

Section Title
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When a title has both an underline and an overline, the title text may be inset, as in the first two examples above. This is merely aesthetic and not significant. Underline-only title text may not be inset.

A blank line after a title is optional. All text blocks up to the next title of the same or higher level are included in a section (or subsection, etc.).

All section title styles need not be used, nor need any specific section title style be used. However, a document must be consistent in its use of section titles: once a hierarchy of title styles is established, sections must use that hierarchy.

Each section title automatically generates a hyperlink target pointing to the section. The text of the hyperlink target (the “reference name”) is the same as that of the section title.

I prefer this order because of decreasing “greyness”:

# * = + ^ ~ - : . _ ` ' "

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Lightweight markup language, Power User, reStructuredText, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

So how does a guy like myself get involved in contributing to GExperts?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Interesting question with some nice hints in the comments there:

[WayBack] So how does a guy like myself get involved in contributing to GExperts?I don’t have a lot a lot of time (or money), but I do have a desire to help. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, GExperts, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Use dumpbin to check if a PE file (dll/exe/…) is x64 or x86

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Boy I wish I had known this long ago:

You can use DUMPBIN too. Use the /headers or /all flag and its the first file header listed.

dumpbin /headers cv210.dll

…

‘find’ can make life slightly easier:

dumpbin /headers cv210.dll |find "machine"
        8664 machine (x64)

Mark McDonald

–jeroen

via: c# – How to find if a native DLL file is compiled as x64 or x86? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

Posted in Development, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Printing from the Atom editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Atom is a great editor, but printing from it is still lacking, even though the issue has been opened again.

There is export-html, but it only prints the current source code, not the built-in Markdown Preview or add-on reStructuredText Preview Pandoc packages “Toggle Preview” views.

By name print-atom looks promising, but contrary to the advertised “Print current atom window using print dialog”, it prints the whole Atom UI, which is of no use at all.

The little red icon isn't an adornment. Even though it doesn't look like a button: It's clickable!

The little red icon isn’t an adornment. Even though it doesn’t look like a button: It’s clickable!

Then there is broadcast which at first only worked for me in 1.6.2 but not in 1.7.2. I even removed the whole ~/.atom directory to get it working: to no avail. It finally occurred to me that in the lower right there was a tiny red icon (which was blue in 1.6.2).

Below is the process to fix broadcast, and after that you can live-view from your web browser through http://localhost:8000 either of the rendered source text in the Atom editor, or the Preview pane in the Atom editor.

Even though hardly documented, these are the broadcast settings:

Only enable

Only enable “Broadcast To Others” if you want to access port 8000 from another machine.

Getting broadcast to work again

  • wasn’t caused by changes in the theming between 1.6.2 and 1.7.2 (where lots of colours changed)
  • wasn’t just an adornment: it’s in fact clickable

As soon as you click it you see this in the right pane:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in atom editor, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, reStructuredText, Software Development, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »

[CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

This might be obvious for CMake regulars, but given the help, I would never have guessed this.

Generate x64:

cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14 Win64"

Generate x86 is just leaving out the platform away:

cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14"

In this case they are for Visual Studio 2015 (internally named 14).

The help:

The following generators are available on this platform:
  Visual Studio 14 2015 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2015 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 12 2013 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2013 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 11 2012 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2012 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
  Visual Studio 10 2010 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2010 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
  Visual Studio 9 2008 [arch]  = Generates Visual Studio 2008 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "IA64".
  Visual Studio 8 2005 [arch]  = Generates Visual Studio 2005 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64".
  Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003    = Deprecated.  Generates Visual Studio .NET
                                 2003 project files.

–jeroen

Adopted from: [CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »