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Problem with Japanese characters.
From [email protected] on August 21, 2013 13:13:11
What steps will reproduce the problem? 1.Trying to play song with Japanese characters 2.An Error windows appears 3.Can successfully play it after deleting Japanese characters & tags What is the expected output? What do you see instead? No music is played. Special error windows, saying it is unable to play the song. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Clementine 1.1.1. Windows 7 Professional x64 Please provide any additional information below. I guess the reason is in Japanese characters. And the only cure is their erasing. For me that's OK (must say that there are no problems with Russian characters) but for people from Japan this can be a serious reason to remove Clementine. I'm gonna add some screenshots of the error.
Attachment: Error.jpg
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=3821
From [email protected] on August 21, 2013 04:32:51
This must be a problem with your system setup. I have thousands of Japanese songs and no such problems.
From [email protected] on October 08, 2013 10:24:53
Exact same problem here, so it is not limited to their setup. Any file that has Korean characters in it's path cannot be added to my library or played by Clementine at all. I've been trying to start debugging this, but I cannot get a working build of Clementine with debug symbols. Adding -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug doesn't seem to work, as when I open it in gdb, it still tells me it cannot read symbol info.
Would really appreciate any help either 1) resolving this issue, or 2) figuring out a way to get debugging working so I can look at it in gdb and try to figure something out.
My setup: Arch Linux 64 bit, fully updated. Have tested both stable release (1.1) in Arch repos and the latest git built from source, the problem effects both.
From [email protected] on October 09, 2013 04:58:01
Try: git clone https://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/ cd clementine-player cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo make gdb ./clementine
From [email protected] on October 09, 2013 12:42:46
My issue was solved by setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8. Previously it was LANG=C. I wouldn't have thought that the system language would affect whether an application can open a file or not, but whatever, works now.
From [email protected] on November 17, 2013 08:53:43
Hi!
I have the same problem and i dont know how to fix it.
Could you tell me where i can change the language like Gary13 or if there is an other solution please?
Thanks,
From [email protected] on November 18, 2013 15:07:03
You have to change the language in your own operating system and not in Clementine. Look online on how to do it, we can't help you.
From [email protected] on November 20, 2013 12:03:36
Thanks for your answer but im not sure to have correctly understood what i should do.
Im on Window 7 Pro x64 (like on the first message)so need I to change the language of my windows? (Does it mean that i cant have windows in my own language but in english?)
I think like its a serious problem to not be able to listen music with specials characters and i hope there is an other solution.
Thanks and sorry to probably misunderstand what you are saying,
From [email protected] on November 20, 2013 12:33:54
I don't know what you need to change on Windows. Perhaps try e-mailing the first poster asking if the issue was solved. Gary was on Linux and simply changed his language settings to something that was able to work with Japanese (or unicode overall) better. I'm sure you can keep Windows in your own language but I don't know what changes you need to make. It's probably a character set/encoding issue.
I did some experiments, and it seems that Clementine cannot read Japanese. The built-in file browser does not display Japanese, and clementine-tagreader does issue #4427 when I try to add Japanese directories to the library. Thunar et al have no trouble with Japanese.
I'm using a current Arch Linux x86_64 and Clementine 1.2.3. My locale is en_US.UTF-8.
Should I build a nightly to double check this?
As of 2022 it seems this is still not entirely fixed. I'm on Manjaro with LANG=en_AU.UTF-8. I have inconsistencies in my abilities to add and play songs with foreign characters, and any radios playing songs with such characters will instead show up as blank. Would be good to see support added for non-english songs.
