[mb-users] Picard encoding problems

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Hi! I'm having a strange problem with Picard: it seems to be unable to
read files whose path contain accented characters. For example, it
can't read any file in a folder called "Jääportit - 1999 - Kauan
Koskematon" (in case the mail screws the encoding too, there are two
"a" with umlaut after the "J"). The error it gives in the status bar
is "Cannot decode audio file." It's pretty clear that it's a path
issue, the same file moved in another folder is read OK. (The filename
itself doesn't have any unusual characters. It stops working if I do
add weird characters to the name.)

It's strange, because on windows it worked just right. I'm running
Picard from the Ubuntu package, 0.7.0, and I tried with 0.7.1 too (the
latter says "Could not read metadata from track").

I have selected "utf-8" as the encoding for reading and writing
filenames, and the output of "locale" on my system is:

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~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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Where do I look now?
-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
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