Re: Re: Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?

[Jan Spurný]

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: http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html). 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 <christriant1995 at gmail.com>
> Předmět: Re: Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?
> Datum: 05.3.2012 14:15:19
> ----------------------------------------
> 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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