It seems like the plug-in - and the synth - cannot handle international characters?
If I save a preset called “Dråben” it will get messed up in the librarian - showing a line break in the middel of the name. Even if I rename the file in the folder it stays that way - are the names in the librarian taken from the SYSEX file instead of file names of the settings file? And is that smart? Should it be able to show both?
The synth “behaves” and shows just a grey square in the name instead. Might make sense to support UNICODE nowadays in a global world
The synth hardware uses the old Atari ST system font, so it only supports the characters found in that set.
The editor meanwhile does some name clean-up to prevent invalid text, but Unicode is somewhere in a grey area… if a character is allowed by both Mac and Windows filesystem, ideally it should be allowed in a preset name… characters that aren’t allowed for filenames definitely can’t be used.
the character I tried - the Danish “Å” is allowed in all file systems and has been for decades and works across NTFS, FAT, OS X Extended disk etc. So should not be the issue. Is the Patch name also saved in some encoded form in the SYSEX and that is the name used in the browser instead of the filename?
The patch name is stored in the sysex, using a simple ASCII encoding (8 bits per letter). This version of the name is primarily intended for display on the Sub 37 LCD screen, where only a limited character set is available anyway, so it’s OK for that.
The filename of the sysex file on your computer is of course distinct from the contents of the sysex file and can be named almost anything.
The Editor is the piece in the middle, which has some inconsistent naming behaviors. It takes the name text you enter when saving and tries to write it to the preset’s internal name (with the 8 bit encoding) and also to the sysex filename (which should allow more characters but still not special characters like /:. Looks like the editor is doing some different things to the name depending on where it’s entered (right-click and rename in Librarian, versus Save As, etc.).
