In order to resolve the non-ascii characters in path (in user directory,
storage path, etc) on windows, we have converted the path into the
short-path, so that - we don't need to deal with the encoding issues
(specially with Python 2).
We've resolved majority of the issues with this patch.
We still need couple issues to resolve after this in the same area.
TODO
* Add better support for non-ascii characters in the database name on
windows with Python 3
* Improve the messages created after the background processes by
different modules (such as Backup, Restore, Import/Export, etc.),
which does not show short-paths, and xml representable characters for
non-ascii characters, when found in the database objects, and the file
PATH.
Fixes#2174, #1797, #2166, #1940
Initial patch by: Surinder Kumar
Reviewed by: Murtuza Zabuawala
1) Unable to select sql file through query tool on windows OS. In file_manager.js, we are stripping initial slash '/' from the path obtained, but we should not strip if it is full path like 'c:/path/to/dir/filename.ext'
2) Handle directory path if STORAGE_DIR is None. Proper checks are added.
operation like backup, restore, etc within it.
Also:
* improvised the color combination of the background process logger.
* Removed an unnecessary print statement from the
get_storage_directory(..) function, also return None if STORAGE_DIR
is set to None.
selection, creation, upload/download files/directories resides on the
server side.
This will be useful for file selection/creation for different server
side utilites like pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore.
