[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#605963: audacious: Audacious does not respect locales, forcing utf-8

[John Lindgren]

tags 605963 fixed-upstream
thanks

Timo Poikola <debian-bugs at ig.fi> wrote:
> I use ISO-8859-1 locals and also my filenames may contain ISO-8859-1 
> characters instead of UTF-8 characters. However, if audacious' command 
> line or playlist contais ISO-8859-1 character(s) in filename(s), audacius 
> barfs:
>
> $ audacious2 013\ Suuri\ väestölaskenta.mp3 
> String '013 Suuri väestölaskenta.mp3' was not UTF-8! Backtrace (8):
...
> Audacious stores filenames to the playlist correctly:
> $ grep location ~/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf
> <location>file:///home/rekcahx/storage/knallit/013%20Suuri%20v%E4est%F6laskenta.mp3</location>
Well, it would be difficult not to use UTF-8 internally, since that is
what GTK+ uses and requires.  However, you are right that we should be
expecting the command line to be in the system locale.  This will be
fixed in Audacious 2.4.2, which we expect to release later today.

http://hg.atheme.org/release/audacious-2.4.x/release/audacious-2.4.x/rev/a2e53800344b
http://hg.atheme.org/release/audacious-plugins-2.4.x/release/audacious-plugins-2.4.x/rev/11497578682c

-- John