[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#585417: can't play tracks with non-ASCII characters [was: Bug#585417:]

[David Smith]

I believe it being mentioned a while back that this was a limitation of
VLC.. I filed a bug against VLC and they simply said that you had to use a
UTF-8 locale and closed it.   VLC team basically said they weren't going to
deal with the old non-UTF locales anymore.

Try switching to a UTF-8 or UTF-16 locale and try again.  Or perhaps try
the GSTEAMER backend?



On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Jarek Kamiński <jarek at vilo.eu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:41:05PM +0800, David Smith wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi.
>
> > I've confirmed this bug in older versions of Amarok, but it was
> > fixed upstream a long time ago.
>
> No, it wasn't.
>
> > Can you please try the Amarok
> > (2.6~beta1+75.g47e75df-1) in Debian Testing and update the status of this
> > bug? Thanks.
>
> Sure,
>
> ii  amarok         2.6.0-1      i386         easy to use media player
> based on
> (is it enough, or should I downgrade to testing?)
>
> #v+
> [jarek at rocket /tmp]% pgrep amarok
> 13314
> [jarek at rocket /tmp]% locale
> LANG=pl_PL
> LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
> LC_CTYPE="pl_PL"
> LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL"
> LC_TIME="pl_PL"
> LC_COLLATE="pl_PL"
> LC_MONETARY="pl_PL"
> LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL"
> LC_PAPER="pl_PL"
> LC_NAME="pl_PL"
> LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL"
> LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL"
> LC_ALL=pl_PL
> [jarek at rocket /tmp]% amarok ./a.mp3 # works
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
> Application may misbehave.
> Amarok is already running!
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
> Application may misbehave.
> [jarek at rocket /tmp]% ln a.mp3 ą.mp3
> [jarek at rocket /tmp]% amarok ./ą.mp3 # skips to the next track
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
> Application may misbehave.
> Amarok is already running!
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
> Application may misbehave.
> #v-
>
> tail from .xsession-errors:
> #v+
> [0xa0cc9f8] filesystem access error: cannot open file /tmp/Ä
> .mp3 (No such file or directory)
> [0xa0cc9f8] main access error: Odczyt pliku nie powiĂłdĹ siÄ
> [0xa0cc9f8] main access error: VLC nie moĹźe otworzyÄ pliku "/tmp/Ä
> .mp3". (No such file or directory)
> [0xa0cc9f8] filesystem access error: cannot open file /tmp/Ä
> .mp3 (No such file or directory)
> [0xa0cc9f8] main access error: Odczyt pliku nie powiĂłdĹ siÄ
> [0xa0cc9f8] main access error: VLC nie moĹźe otworzyÄ pliku "/tmp/Ä
> .mp3". (No such file or directory)
> [0xa1a1868] main input error: open of `file:///tmp/%C4%85.mp3' failed
> [0xa1a1868] main input error: Twoje dane wejĹiowe nie moĹźe byÄ otwarte
> [0xa1a1868] main input error: Program VLC nie moĹźe otworzyÄ MRL
> 'file:///tmp/%C4%85.mp3'. SzczegĂłĹy bĹÄdu moĹźna znaleĹşÄ w dzienniku.
> ^[[?1;2cWARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject (
> no objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioDataOutput ( no objectName ).
> Object::connect: No such signal
> Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::angleChanged(int) in
> ../../phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:64
> Object::connect: No such signal
> Phonon::VLC::MediaObject::availableAnglesChanged(int) in
> ../../phonon/mediacontroller.cpp:65
> #v-
>
> "Ä" dosen't look like "ą', but tail .xsession-errors|enca returns
> "Universal transformation format 8 bits; UTF-8".
> "file:///tmp/%C4%85.mp3" suggests some 2-byte encoding like UTF-8, "ą"
> is encoded on single byte in ISO-8859-2.
>
> So, definitely not fixed. File names shouldn't be interpreted as encoded
> strings, but rather opaque byte arrays, as this is the way the
> filesystems treat them (without encoding information attached).
>
> --
> pozdr(); // Jarek
>
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