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? <div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/5 Tim-Philipp Müller <<a href="mailto:t.i.m@zen.co.uk">t.i.m@zen.co.uk</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">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 </div></div>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> </blockquote></div>