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dsetubal · Postby **dsetubal** » 28 Nov 2004 10:58

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

Sigmund · Postby **Sigmund** » 28 Nov 2004 13:17

does this happen both for urls and for local files?

dsetubal · Postby **dsetubal** » 28 Nov 2004 14:31

Tried that too... doesnt work... it just doesnt understand the characters...

Sigmund · Postby **Sigmund** » 28 Nov 2004 15:36

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.

dsetubal · Postby **dsetubal** » 29 Nov 2004 11:59

No... nothing works. And none of the other equivalent programs work either...

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 05 Jan 2005 06:51

I cant play a movie if I use "→" in the filename.
I believe vlc cant use all the 256 ascii chars.

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 05 Jan 2005 12:29

you should read the questions asked in the postings above yours...
You failed to provide all the necesarry context information.

hackwrench · Postby **hackwrench** » 20 Sep 2005 19:14

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

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 20 Sep 2005 21:53

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.

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 22 Apr 2006 01:34

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

dionoea · Postby **dionoea** » 22 Apr 2006 16:17

Please try with 0.8.5-test3 and tell us if it's fixed.

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 22 Apr 2006 22:48

no, it's not...

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 26 Apr 2006 11:56

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" ???

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 26 Apr 2006 18:06

Did you DnD it, or used "Open..." or "Open File" ???

any of this ways make the same result...

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 03 May 2006 10:47

viewtopic.php?t=7475 appears to be the same problem. My current problem filename of the moment is ???? Scryed OP - Reckless fire.mp3

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 03 May 2006 14:26

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.

md · Postby md » 20 Nov 2006 12:11

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

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