Problem with Greek characters in DATABASE search

[geonik838]

Hi everyone,
Recently I discovered Rockbox and I find it really OK for my Sansa e280. Really helpfull indeed.

My native language is Greek and all my music files are in greek. So I created (following your instructions) a greek utf-8 keyboard file and now when I go to Database -> Search -> Artist  I can find any greek song in my sansa.

The problem starts when I try to use Database -> Search -> A to Z... option because I can't see greek alphabet.
I tried to add a tagnavi_custom.config file with a search menu for greek alphabet and search like:
"J"   -> artist ? artist ^ "Ξ" -> album  -> title = "fmt_title"
or
"Ξ"   -> artist ? artist ^ "Ξ" -> album  -> title = "fmt_title"
but nothing happened.
Greek characters are not visible nor searchable under "A to Z..." search menu.

I'm sure that rockbox can search files with greek characters but from the   "A to Z..." database search option these characters never reach rockbox's internal search routines.

Please help....  

[geonik838]

Did I made a wrong question in wrong topic ?

Is the answer so much easy that everybody knows it except me?

Do I have to repost the question in another topic ?

Cheers.

[AlexP]

1)  Please don't double post, if you edit it will show up new again.

2)  I suspect no-one has answered because they don't know the answer.  We can't have everyone posting just to say I don't know.  Personally I have no idea, I've never used greek letters except in science, and certainly not with Rockbox.

[geonik838]

Ok.

I don't expect anyone in this forum to understand greek but of course there must be a lot of them that use unicode characters and fonts in their Rockbox (I mean   Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Katakana, Georgian, Thai, Hangul, Hiragana, Arabic) and of course it's impossible for someone to know or to speak all that languages.

My question wasn't "language" dependent but "font" or "charset" dependent.

I mean IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US (UNICODE FONT USERS) TO SEARCH IN THE DATABASE USING UNICODE CHARACTERS

Anyway.

Thank you alot.

[AlexP]

Please stop shouting.

I know what you meant and I know it is character dependent not language, but as we were talking about greek specifically it made very little sense for me to start talking about arabic.  I would still say if no-one has answered that would mean that no-one who has read it knows the answer.  You may have more luck on IRC where there are generally more devs.