Non-ascii characters are not shown properly

[Juan Montoya]

Binary package hint: mpd

Files in different languages than english are not shown properly.
A similar bug occurs with banshee.
These files are read properly on Rhythmbox.

I will attach a screenshot of gmpc showing strange characters instead of tildes (áéíóú).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: mpd 0.15.10-1ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 13 09:43:04 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_PE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mpd

[Juan Montoya (th3pr0ph3t)]

The file selected in the screenshot has the following ID3 tags:

$ id3v2 -l Luis\ Enrique\ -\ Yo\ no\ sé\ mañana.mp3
id3v1 tag info for Luis Enrique - Yo no sé mañana.mp3:
Title : Yo no sé mañana Artist: Luis Enrique
Album : Year: , Genre: Salsa (143)
Comment: Track: 0
id3v2 tag info for Luis Enrique - Yo no sé mañana.mp3:
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Luis Enrique
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Yo no sé mañana
TCON (Content type): Salsa (143)

[Juan Montoya (th3pr0ph3t)]

/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache contains:

info_begin
mpd_version: 0.15.10
fs_charset: UTF-8
info_end
songList begin
...
key: Luis Enrique - Yo no sé mañana.mp3
file: /Luis Enrique - Yo no sé mañana.mp3
Time: 261
Artist: Luis Enrique
Title: Yo no sé mañana
Genre: Salsa
mtime: 1295054910

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

The Banshee accents seem to be a problem in mono see Bug #674017

[Florian Schlichting (fschlich)]

gmpc seems to faithfully display the Title value from your tag_cache.
Could this be an encoding issue in the id3 tag?

On the other hand, there have been many mpd releases since your report, is this still an issue when you rescan your database today?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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