Poor unicode collation in Amarok's database
Bug #320305 reported by
Matthäus Brandl
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Amarok |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| amarok (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: amarok
On Amarok 1.4.10 (Intrepid) when I'm searching my collection by entering a latin letter [a-z] it will yield all files containing that letter, not regarding the case. (ie as well "Arctic Monkeys" as "Bad Religion", as well "A" as "a") But trying this same thing with extended latin characters as German umlauts or Spanish accented letters, the case does matter. For example entering "Ä" will return "Die Ärzte" while entering "ä" doesn't, entering "Á" will yield "Ángel" but not "ámame".
I'm sure this happens with more letters like French/Italian accents, French/
| Changed in amarok: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in amarok (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| summary: |
- Upper/lower case problems with extended latin characters + Poor unicode collation in Amarok's database |
| Changed in amarok (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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Bugfix confirmed by an Amarok developer in the linked kde-bugs report. Details in a recent blog post [1].
Matthäus, please let us know when Amarok 2.2 arrives if this issue isn't fixed.
Thanks!
[1] http://