CEP showOpenDialog() issue with special characters on filename on Mac

[#1]

Hey,

I'm using CEP to create a PPro extension. In my panel I use showOpenDialog to let the user select a file from the filesystem:

 const file = window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog()

I selected a file called "münchen.mp4",  this is what I get on the file variable

on Mac:

on Windows:

I general, it seems that every char in a filename that is not ASCII is encoded into some code on Mac machines.

Any ideas how can I solve it? and have same behaviour on both Windows and MacOS

[#2]

Hey,

I'm using CEP to create a PPro extension. In my panel I use showOpenDialog to let the user select a file from the filesystem:

 const file = window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog()

I selected a file called "münchen.mp4",  this is what I get on the file variable

on Mac:

on Windows:

I general, it seems that every char in a filename that is not ASCII is encoded into some code on Mac machines.

Any ideas how can I solve it? and have same behaviour on both Windows and MacOS

[#3]

on Mac:

[#4 · Accepted solution]

If you use showOpenDialogEx(), you'll get the expected characters. Here's CEP HTML Test Panel 1, running in PPro:

[#5]

Thanks, it does work partially - now I do see the string as I expect to see (visually) but look at this:

mediaName is the fileName returned from showOpenDialogEx()

currentChild.name is the filename taken from ProjectItem from the Bin (after I imported it)

my problem is that the underlying encoding seems to be different in both cases. So I cannot check the equallity between them (the above returns false although they both refer to the same video file).

Is there a way to overcome this? set the encoding?

[#6]

Sorry, that's outside my PPro and Adobe API experience. Yes, the encoding is suspect.

This seems potentially helpful/relevant:

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/57738/how-to-decode-german-charactersgerman-umlauts-f...