Media and folder with special character

[Greg Hedlund]

Hello Christophe,

The issue comes from the encoding of special characters in the URL sent 
to VLC for playback.  I will look into changing how the URL is generated.

Cheers,

-Greg

On 2013-01-28 10:31 AM, Christophe dos Santos wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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