Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?

[Jan Spurny]

Hi,

sure, why not

sincerely,
Jan Spurny

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:12:12 +0100 (CET)
Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης <christriant1995 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok thanks!
> 
> its ok to contact you at your email to tell you more about this problem so
> you can help me?
> 
> 2012/3/5 Jan Spurný <JSpurny at seznam.cz>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the problem is in python - I had many similar problems
> > with czech strings (as I am czech) - the main problem is that SOMEWHERE you
> > read some string into python, but if the python does not know what is being
> > read, it may assume it's 'ascii' unless you specify otherwise - so you have
> > to explicitly tell him that what he reads is utf-8.
> >
> > As I said - I recomend reading that string encoding howto for python..
> >
> > sincerely,
> > Jan Spurny
> >
> >
> > > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> > > Od: Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλης <christriant1995 at gmail.com>
> > > Předmět: Re: Re: Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?
> > > Datum: 05.3.2012 15:51:28
> > > ----------------------------------------
> > > 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! :)
> > >
> > > 2012/3/5 Jan Spurný <JSpurny at seznam.cz>
> > >
> > > > 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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