Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?

[Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης]

i am using discoverer to get the tags from a file that why i am using
 newitem.discover_uri("file://" + path)

it is the same to use the one you recommended?

2012/3/5 Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk>

> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 14:56 +0200, Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης wrote:
>
> > i am writing a music player and i want to know if gstreamer supports
> > utf-8 and unicode because i have a problem here:
> >
> > info = newitem.discover_uri("file://" + path)
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> > 19-25: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > the program is written in Python
>
> That is not how you create a valid URI from a filename.
>
> Use gst.filename_to_uri(path) instead (on Linux/*nix systems the
> filename is just a bunch of bytes in whatever encoding the filesystem
> uses. On Windows, the filename must be in UTF-8 format).
>
> Cheers
>  -Tim
>
>
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