GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323737
Banshee doesn't import Files with wrong name
Last modified: 2006-04-10 16:20:26 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Dapper I have some mp3 files in my NTFS partition and I want to import them in Banshee. The problem is that I have some spanish songs with names which contain symbols like á, é etc. The file selector says that the file names are not UTF-8 valid. Banshee doesn't import these kind of files.
I have some mp3 files in my NTFS partition and I want to import them in Banshee. The problem is that I have some spanish songs with names which contain symbols like á, é etc. The file selector says that the file names are not UTF-8 valid. Banshee doesn't import these kind of files.
The filenames are probably encoded Latin1. The problem is probably that mono won't automatically detect latin1 vs utf-8. Banshee does import special UTF-8 characters, just not if they're encoded Latin1. Can you please paste the exact error/warning messages printed to the console by running banshee from the terminal?
Hm, in version 0.10.5 i was able to overcome this by setting MONO_EXTERNAL_ENCODING(S)=MY_ENCODING without this variable set i have had errors from banshe in console... But now, in version 0.10.7 (Gst0.10 backend & mono 1.1.13.1) i can't import files with non-Latin filenames... something happened?
This is a mono bug. We will provide some way around this in the future and are well aware of it, but I am going to close it here.