i have convert to utf-8 all the strings i pass to uri and when i use only string with english characters the program works! when i use with greek characters (i am from greece) the program gives me the above error! but all the strings are at utf-8...i am not sure if the problem is in python or gstreamer... so i asked here for your help! :) <div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/5 Jan Spurný <<a href="mailto:JSpurny@seznam.cz">JSpurny@seznam.cz</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that this is more python than gstreamer problem - anyway, you should probably read something about encoding/unicode in python (for example: <a href="http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html</a>). Quick tips: 1) use: unicode_path = path.decode('utf-8') # or other encoding you use 2) use: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top of the source file (1st or 2nd line) sincerely, Jan Spurny > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης <<a href="mailto:christriant1995@gmail.com">christriant1995@gmail.com</a>> > Předmět: Re: Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode? > Datum: 05.3.2012 14:15:19 > ---------------------------------------- <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> 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 <<a href="mailto:t.i.m@zen.co.uk">t.i.m@zen.co.uk</a>> > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gstreamer-devel mailing list > > <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> > > > > > _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>