Media and folder with special character

[Christophe dos Santos]

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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