Mpd has wrong filesystem charset coding default

[Almer S. Tigelaar]

I was puzzled when several mp3 files that I have did not play on my system. Clicking them caused either
no response or caused an other song to start (when playlist shuffling was enabled).

I eventually found out that this was due to the use of special characters in the filenames of some of my
music files, such as ö and é, etc... These are stored in UTF-8 on the (ubuntu default) ext3 filesystem.
Setting the filesystem_charset in /etc/mpd.conf to "UTF-8" (and re-creating the mpd database afterwards)
solved the problem for me.

The reason I am reporting this problem is that I do not understand why the default filesystem encoding
in mpd.conf is set to "ISO-8859-1" on ubuntu, while the most common filesystem used when installing
ubuntu: ext3 (and possibly other filesystems too) encode their filenames in UTF-8 ....

I suggest that the ubuntu mpd package sets filesystem_charset to "UTF-8" by default _OR_ the installation
script can detect the filesystem coding of the root (/) filesystem. Although I have no idea how this could be
realized other than by expanding the entries in /etc/fstab (i.e. expanding 'defaults' to iocharset='utf-8' or
somesuch).

[Almer S. Tigelaar (almer)]

For completeness the version numbers:

Using: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Mpd: 0.12.2

Ubuntu Package Information:
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Package: mpd
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 432
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Decklin Foster <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.12.2-2ubuntu2

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

Hi Almer,

Thanks for your bug report. I am closing this bug as it has been fixed in our development release gutsy gibbon. If you want this to be fixed in feisty, please follow the procedure described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. Feel free to ask help on IRC or by mail. Personnally, I am not sure it worth an stable release update as it's only a configuration file setting.

[Almer S. Tigelaar (almer)]

Hi Lionel,

Thanks for fixing this in Gutsy. I agree, this fix need not be 'backported' to Feisty, it is by no means critical, just annoying.
All the better that is has been fixed now in the next release :)

With kind regards,

Almer.