Error creating filename

[dolbysnoopy]

I have a problem getting utorrent 1.22 to download torrents with foreign encoding (chinese chars) which I can change in bitcomet. Any solution to rename files or change encoding?

[Firon]

µTorrent lacks Unicode support (but it's being worked on at this moment!)

If you're on Windows XP, you can use AppLocale to set µTorrent to Chinese, and it should work.

[dolbysnoopy]

Good to hear that unicode support will available soon, any plans on Big5/GB encoding support, or unicode will suit all languages?

[Firon]

I do believe that Unicode will work for all languages.

[dolbysnoopy]

I do believe that Unicode will work for all languages.

Ok, will wait for it. The beta 1.2.3's unicode doesn't work. Using Xp Trad. chinese here and it changes big5 filename to unicode. And it reports error creating filename.

[Firon]

Because most Chinese torrents aren't made as UTF-8, since BitComet makes those torrents in a very STUPID fashion (it uses windows-1252 as the encoding...). Good old BitComet.

Azureus fails on working with them too...

Read my long post about it here. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=25074#p25074

[dolbysnoopy]

Because most Chinese torrents aren't made as UTF-8, since BitComet makes those torrents in a very STUPID fashion (it uses windows-1252 as the encoding...). Good old BitComet.

Azureus fails on working with them too...

Read my long post about it here. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=25074#p25074

Thanks, any chance I can rename the files before download? It reports error and just stop downloading now, I can change filenames back after finish download.

[Firon]

Have you tried doing a force re-check to see if it picks up the files?

I guess you could load the torrent and try to rename it according to what µTorrent says, but renaming according to a bunch of trash characters isn't exactly easy to do... :|

[dolbysnoopy]

Have you tried doing a force re-check to see if it picks up the files?

I guess you could load the torrent and try to rename it according to what µTorrent says, but renaming according to a bunch of trash characters isn't exactly easy to do... :|

Yes, tried already. It doesn't download and a red-cross beside the torrent name, no files downloaded or created. What I mean is let utorrent rename the file/path names temporary (like opr0001.ext) so that I can rename backup after download/seed. I can't find a tool to rename the path/files inside torrent files, perhaps the bitcomet torrent creator has bugs.

[Firon]

Ah, I know what you can do. Remove the torrent, turn on pre-allocate, reload it, and start it. Stop the torrent, turn off pre-allocate. That way you can copy and paste the filenames (or try to) from the created ones to the old ones that µTorrent won't read.

You can't rename the stuff in the torrent unfortunately. :/

If you didn't have much data beforehand, it might just be easier to start over. Even if it's a badly made torrent, µTorrent should STILL work with it if you started fresh...

[dolbysnoopy]

I found that the error is made by illegal chars in path/file name, it mixed with chinese & japanese chars, so the illegal chars between the chinese chars is unrecognised japanese char and it displayed with "?" for that char so utorrent can't create the file.

I tried your method but still don't work. Do I missed sth?

[boo]

dolbysnoopy, try the latest beta, it has improved its unicode support.

[dolbysnoopy]

Is it really work? Because I tried the earlier beta 1.2.3 but it made me have to restart dl torrent again. I will finish my bunch of torrent/backup my files first.

[Firon]

If your stuff disappears (shouldn't happen anymore), close the client immediately, go to %appdata%\utorrent, delete resume.dat, and rename resume.dat.old to resume.dat

[dolbysnoopy]

It worked 100% here!! Nice! There's no need to use Bitcomet anymore.