2019-03-15, 17:30
Hi Wintermute, I'm glad I could help.
I'd always kept the zipped samples in MAME's default samples folder, but also deleted the floppy and MM1_keyboard subfolders because Clrmamepro won't scan clean with them there. I don't mind keeping the zipped samples in a separate folder. Users will need to be aware to configure samplepath in mame.ini for both sample folders.
Non UTF-8 filenames in ZIPs are a difficult issue. It seems that chardet is the most recommended solution, but it's not foolproof.
namelist() from ZipFile returns strings with an invalid encoding
Python zipfile module can't extract filenames with Chinese characters
I'd always kept the zipped samples in MAME's default samples folder, but also deleted the floppy and MM1_keyboard subfolders because Clrmamepro won't scan clean with them there. I don't mind keeping the zipped samples in a separate folder. Users will need to be aware to configure samplepath in mame.ini for both sample folders.
Non UTF-8 filenames in ZIPs are a difficult issue. It seems that chardet is the most recommended solution, but it's not foolproof.
namelist() from ZipFile returns strings with an invalid encoding
Python zipfile module can't extract filenames with Chinese characters
