Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that people use UTF-8 filenames yet. A small test I've made shows that even KDE saves hebrew filenames in a non-unicode form.
I think that Windows behaves in a similar way. On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 15:20, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Oren Held wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > xmms is the last software left where I have to read hebrew backwards. > > I'm waiting for the gtk2 port for quite a long time and it won't go out, > > but apparently I'm not alone. Beep Media Player (BMP in short) is a fork > > from the xmms tree which already implements gtk2, and works pretty fine > > (with few bugs still, it's a beta). > > > > However.. I still cannot see my hebrew songs well: because now with > > gtk2/pango, it expects filenames/id3 in the unicode format, which I > > don't use (I assume most of us don't). I want to suggest the BMP team to > > add an option 'no unicode filenames'. I just don't know gtk2/pango too > > well and I'm not sure whether that's exactly what they should add in > > order to make us happy.. I assume they just have to use some > > iso8859-8->utf-8 converting function (because if we want pango to render > > it fine, with bidi, it should convert the non-unicode text to unicode). > > > > Anybody has something smart to say? > > Most probably the best thing I can say is "forget about that". > And something smart is to write a few lines of python (really > few) to convert your id3 tags to Unicode once for all. > > > - Oren > > behdad > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
