my system encoding is UTF-8 chris@chris-Aspire-5732Z:~$ python Python 2.7.2+ (default, Feb 16 2012, 18:29:42) [GCC 4.6.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'UTF-8' >>> how can i use discoverer if i dont use discover_uri with file:// ? can i? so is there any way to solve this? <div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/9 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 Thu, 2012-03-08 at 20:31 +0200, Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης wrote: > i have this line > > info = newitem.discover_uri(("file://" + path).encode('utf-8')) > > and with the .encode() it works with everything i enter on path > variable but when > the path variable contains a letter with a tone in greek , for example > "/home/chris/Μουσική" > the tone is the ' above the letter "η" at the end of the string in our > current example, i get this error > > info = newitem.discover_uri(("file://" + path).encode('utf-8')) > glib.GError: Δεν βρέθηκε ο πόρος. > > the "Δεν βρέθηκε ο πόρος." can be translated to "the source hasn't > been found", something like that :P > > do you have any idea how to solve this? </div></div>To repeat what I said last time: On Linux/*nix a filename path is just a bunch of bytes. It may be in any (8-bit) encoding, ISO-8859-X, UTF-8, whatever. You need to acquire the filename/filepath in the file system encoding or convert it to the encoding used. It's a bit of a mess, esp. with the python layer on top, but I'm sure there are docs somewhere that explain it in more detail. Then you need to create a URI from that file path. Prefixing it with 'file://' may sometimes work, but is not correct and won't work with relative paths either. GStreamer (on Linux) expects a URI that expresses the file path in file system encoding. This isn't necessarily UTF-8, but might be. (We don't know.) 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>