Media and folder with special character

[Christophe dos Santos]

Hi Greg and happy new year,

I write you just to have some news about the issue I published when you 
were in vacation (sorry ;-).

See below,

Best,

Christophe

Le jeudi 16 août 2012 22:03:18 UTC+2, Yvan Rose a écrit :
>
> Hi Christophe,
> Thanks for your clear description of the issue. Greg is currently on 
> vacation but will get back to you about this soon after he returns. 
>
> With best regards,
> Yvan
>
>
> On 2012-08-16, at 12:05, Christophe dos Santos <master... at gmail.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> To add an information, the waveform window doesn't show this problem and 
> play any mediafile located in a folder containing a special character.
>
> I can imagine that the waveform is computed with another software than VLC 
> (maybe Praat or audacity?).
>
> Christophe 
>
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:52:21 PM UTC+2, Christophe dos Santos wrote:
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> The same problem that I had with CLAN seems to be effective with Phon as 
>> well.
>>
>> My user name has a special character in it : "ç"
>>
>> When I try to play a media file in the media player with this media file 
>> located below my username folder (which means most of my files), the media 
>> player display "opening" for ever.
>> If I locate the media file above my username folder, like at the root of 
>> my hardrive D: , no problem, the media player play the media file.
>>
>> I can imagine that at some point an address of the mediafile location is 
>> required but this address needs to have only ASCII characters in it in 
>> order to work proper.
>>
>> I know that Leonid fixed this problem very quickly for Childes, I don't 
>> know if it will be very easy for Phon as well.
>>
>> I know another person that had this problem with Phon but didn't know 
>> where it came from. In language using special characters like accent "é" or 
>> "è" it could be useful to be able to read address which contains special 
>> characters. Or maybe, if it is not done yet, you can just display an 
>> information about this problem when opening the mediaplayer.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>>
>>
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