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playlist format UTF8 vs ASCII
heze:
I'm looking forward, markun! Thank you very much.
When do you think is this feature available (again)?
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: heze on October 05, 2006, 04:28:59 AM ---Right! This statement confirms my logic:
Rockbox of September 2005: m3u-playlists with umlauts work fine!
Rockbox of October 2006: they have to get converted now.
--- End quote ---
Strange logic.
I'm running my linux box utf-8 only since some years now, which also results in e.g. xmms (the linux counterpart to winamp) to produce utf-8 playlists. Which means:
- Rockbox of Sep 2005: playlist with umlauts work fine. Files use latin encoding
- Rockbox of Oct 2006: playlists with umlauts work fine. Files use utf-8 encoding
So telling "they have to be converted" isn't completely correct -- my playlists (that were utf-8 before) needed to get converted until utf-8 was implemented. "They have to be converted" doesn't apply in all cases, so this isn't completely true. It all depends on the local encoding you're using (try opening a utf-8 file with notepad, which can't handle utf-8). Text files don't have any information about their encoding attached so a text file could be any encoding.
I'd rather say "Playlists need to be in the correct encoding to use characters outside of ASCII".
I disagree with LinusN as Rockbox is still able handling umlauts in playlists. The problem is simply that there is an assumption of the encoding. Which doesn't match in every case.
heze:
--- Quote from: markun on October 05, 2006, 04:43:03 AM ---I'm working on it
--- End quote ---
Hi markun,
how are the things now? Did you solve it?
Sorry, I did not check out a newer build...
Thanks.
markun:
Sorry, I didn't finish the code yet. First I wrote it in the wrong place (wrong functions) and then I got too busy with the rockbox port to the Toshiba Gigabeat (still am)
I still have the code and should give it another go soon.
Lear:
I've just written something that looks promising in the simulator (that's why I asked you about iso_decode on IRC :) ), and I should be ready to commit it in a few days, once I've had the chance to test it on target.
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