Bug#892083: smplayer: recodes filenames to wrong encoding

[Oleg Broytman]

Package: smplayer
Version: 16.11.0~ds0-1+deb9u1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainer, for many years I was using smplayer quite happily,
thank you very much!

But recently I upgraded to Debian 9 stretch and now I have a problem
playing files where filename or path is in koi8-r encoding (I use
ru_RU.KOI8-R locale). When I try to play such a file smplayer reports
"Cannot start mpv". In the smplayer's log I see the file name/path
recoded to a wrong encoding. I'm not sure but it seems smplayer
re-encodes file paths from the current locale to utf-8 and pass the
re-encoded name to mpv, that what I suspect.

I experimented a bit and found smplayer plays files with utf-8 names
without a problem. For many reasons I don't want to recode my file/dir
names and switch to utf-8. So now I have to play files directly with
mpv.

I don't know if it's Debian-specific or upstream bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages smplayer depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libqt5core5a              5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5dbus5               5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5gui5                5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5network5            5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5script5             5.7.1~20161021+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5xml5                5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libstdc++6                6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  mpv                       1:0.27.2-dmo1+deb9u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages smplayer recommends:
pn  smplayer-l10n    <none>
pn  smplayer-themes  <none>

smplayer suggests no packages.

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Oleg.
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