December 08, 2015

Last week, ScalaVista user Hermann Beyer reported some problems with ScalaVista. When he tried to copy scale data from certain Turkish scales to the clipboard, the result was blank! Nobody had run across this problem until now. Since the Scala archive consists of over four thousand scales, it's understandable that something like this could be overlooked.

When I received these bug reports, I knew that this had something to do with character encoding, because the Turkish language requires non-latin characters. Sure enough, when I checked the relevant parts of the code, I found that character encoding was not being preserved in certain functions involving the clipboard. When text placed on the clipboard has the wrong encoding, the system may not see it as text, because the byte structure of the data is unknown.

After corresponding with Hermann Beyer, and sending him a beta version to test, the problem was solved. Everyone please download the update and let me know any other issues you find. When you report problems and work with me to test beta versions, you are helping to make the software better! Thanks again to Hermann Beyer for the help this time around.

Regards,
Aaron