non-ASCII characters in path to video file causes errors

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Issue by processing-bugs Sunday Feb 10, 2013 at 17:39 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1439

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Original author: [email protected] (November 19, 2012 22:01:29)

Description: When a sketch folder is place inside a folder with a name containing a special character video files don't render and processing don't output any error.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. place the attached sketch in a path where there is a special character in one of the folder name.

ex: /Users/username/Documents/Etudiants/école/Loop/Loop.pde

1. run sketch

NOTE: you can reproduce this behavior with any sketch using video file and the core video library

What is the expected output? The video should play.

What do you see instead? No error and no video playing. In this example, only the background color.

What version of the product are you using? 2.0b6

On what operating system? MacOsX 10.8.2

Additionnal informations: It look like a trivial problem but french speaking people will have issue with this since OSs accept filename with some special character. Most frequent characters are: é, è, à, ç, ô.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/processing/issues/detail?id=1401

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Comment by processing-bugs Sunday Feb 10, 2013 at 17:39 GMT

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From [email protected] on November 20, 2012 15:30:13 Confirmed... Andrés, this is spewing a gstreamer error about bad Unicode:

(Processing core video:92151): GStreamer-WARNING **: Trying to set string on structure field 'debug', but string is not valid UTF-8. Please file a bug.

[codeanticode]

This is probably solved with the update to GStreamer 1.x, need to check.