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I'm using the latest videolan and I still can not play any of my russian files that have titles that are in russian ex Катюша.mp3 .Can support for non Ascii names be added. I known WMP, Itunes, Powerdvd have it.

could you try the 0.8.4-test2 beta release ?

I've tried both the nightlies and Beta2. It does not work.

The most popular charsets in Russia are
cp-1251/windows-1251 (approx. 70%)
UTF-8/Unicode (approx. 25%)
koi8-r/KOI-8, alt866/cp866, others }= approx 5%

so, I can not open a file with my native letters.

Вы никогда не закроете тикет №35 без этого

Same wrong behavior when the filename contain chinese chars.

Try to reproduce it on WinXP. Rename for instance a .avi file with this sample name : "Test - 专辑.avi". You should see it doesn't work: you can see in the status bar (one or two seconds only) that VLC tried to open it as non unicode name, as "Test - ??.avi" will be displayed.

Good night, and good luck.

I don't use VLC for music playing (there's foobar on Windows, and amaroK in linux), but I have tried to play some of my japanese music in VLC. File names are encoded in Unicode, but it apparently fails to render them.

Although Unicode support is a must, I disagree with supporting every single charset out there. It would be retarded, and quite troublesome for the developers, especially considering modern OS's are converting file names to Unicode in their file systems (e.g. NTFS uses UTF-16, and Ubuntu Linux uses UTF-8).

And OSX uses something like UTF-8 as well.
Anyways, did you try to play them with one of the nightlies builds? We really want this working.

Same here, VLC fails with cyrillic files

Same here, VLC fails with cyrillic files

What version are you using ?

Same problem, cryllic characters don't render, but files will play. using 8.5.
I think its a safe assumption that the fonts bundled with VLC can't handle cyrillic, which brings me to a possible solution:
is there any way of switching the playlist fonts (eg foobar style) ?

unicode files do render. but no other set does (once again, exactly as above).
But not in all skins, again, a font thing i suspect.

i've got same problem, using vlc 0.9.0 (2007-02-09) and vlc 0.8.6 when playing files with russian names