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Posted: 28 Nov 2004 10:58
by dsetubal
I have been unable to use vlc on filenames that contain hebrew characters. Anyone with a similar problem?
win XP vlc0.8.1
example file - mms://
www.radio10.co.il/mp3/הרהג ראובן אלבז/אלבזבראשית/05חיישרה5762.wma
Posted: 28 Nov 2004 13:17
by Sigmund
does this happen both for urls and for local files?
Tried that
Posted: 28 Nov 2004 14:31
by dsetubal
Tried that too... doesnt work... it just doesnt understand the characters...
Posted: 28 Nov 2004 15:36
by Sigmund
does this happen when you past the filename into the "open file" part of the open dialog? Does it also happen if you use the "browse" feature to select the name? Btw, handling international filenames is sort of complicated. We are working on it, but it's sort of slow progress.
Still not
Posted: 29 Nov 2004 11:59
by dsetubal
No... nothing works. And none of the other equivalent programs work either...
Posted: 05 Jan 2005 06:51
by Guest
I cant play a movie if I use "→" in the filename.
I believe vlc cant use all the 256 ascii chars.
Posted: 05 Jan 2005 12:29
by The DJ
you should read the questions asked in the postings above yours...
You failed to provide all the necesarry context information.
VLC just doesn't support Unicode filenames
Posted: 20 Sep 2005 19:14
by hackwrench
viewtopic.php?t=7475 appears to be the same problem. My current problem filename of the moment is 超能奇兵 Scryed OP - Reckless fire.mp3
Posted: 20 Sep 2005 21:53
by The DJ
This is partly solved in the next version of VLC. I'm not sure if it's also fixed for mms links though. It would probably be a bit tougher.
Posted: 22 Apr 2006 01:34
by Guest
hello there!
i'm corrently using vlc player 0.8.4a
i have both russian and hebrew files/folders and russian windows xp.
when i open file, that it's name or path contains hebrew text, vlc shows '?????' instead.
both when i drag the file or open it through "browse..."
please download this file and try opening it.
http://rolevik.org/helktmp/פרפרים.mid
Posted: 22 Apr 2006 16:17
by dionoea
Please try with 0.8.5-test3 and tell us if it's fixed.
Posted: 22 Apr 2006 22:48
by Guest
no, it's not...
Posted: 26 Apr 2006 11:56
by The DJ
i'm wondering if there possibly is a RTL/bidi issue here that isn't handled....
How did you add this file to VLC?
Did you DnD it, or used "Open..." or "Open File" ???
Posted: 26 Apr 2006 18:06
by Guest
Did you DnD it, or used "Open..." or "Open File" ???
any of this ways make the same result...
Re: VLC just doesn't support Unicode filenames
Posted: 03 May 2006 10:47
by Guest
viewtopic.php?t=7475 appears to be the same problem. My current problem filename of the moment is ???? Scryed OP - Reckless fire.mp3
Posted: 03 May 2006 14:26
by The DJ
I have no idea. I notice the same file isn't working on VLC OSX either, and that is quite unusual. We never had much trouble with filenames on OSX. that's why i'm wondering if some sort of bidi issue is also occuring.
Posted: 20 Nov 2006 12:11
by md
These problems have been fixed recently - but only on Unicode-capable Windows versions
(NT,2000,XP,Vista)
Please try:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... -win32.exe