Subsonic doesn't show folders with foreign characters

[karvanapa]

Subsonic doesn't show folders with foreign characters. Song names are with characters like ä,ö and å are shown correctly.

I've installed Subsonic on Ubuntu with following information:
4.0.1 (build 1524)
jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_0, Linux (48.0 MB / 56.1 MB)

I've found threads with similar problems but none of them seem to help. I think that the folder names in my music folder are not in UTF-8 because I've moved files and folders from my Windows machine using samba.

When I updated from 3.9 to 4.0 Subsonic indexed all folders, but after I restarted my Ubuntu machine this problem appeared again. Nothing seems to help...

[karvanapa]

I noticed now that some of the files with foreign characters are shown correctly, but in some of them the characters are shown as � mark and subsonic wont play them.

I've tried to reinstalling subsonic and java-packages but no help. Doesn't anyone have any ideas?

[ccandreva]

Make sure the LANG environment variable is set. With the standard Fedora packages it wasn't, and I had to add these lines to /etc/sysconfig/subsonic

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C


[karvanapa]

It works now! I noticed that after restaring Subsonic folders started to work. I didn't notice it before because I didn't rebuild the index.

I tried putting these lines:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
into /etc/init.d/subsonic and /etc/default/subsonic but it didn't help.

Then I tried the same with:
export LC_CTYPE
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Everything started to work after I put these lines into /etc/default/subsonic.

Thank you for pointing me into to the right direction ccandreva!

[frason]

It works now! I noticed that after restaring Subsonic folders started to work. I didn't notice it before because I didn't rebuild the index.

I tried putting these lines:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
into /etc/init.d/subsonic and /etc/default/subsonic but it didn't help.

Then I tried the same with:
export LC_CTYPE
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Everything started to work after I put these lines into /etc/default/subsonic.

Thank you for pointing me into to the right direction ccandreva!

Thanks, I added the lines you wrote to /etc/init.d/subsonic
Now it works fine.

[krizze]

Thanks a bunch, stupid me started renaming files and stuff, now I don't have to anymore

[jbaile38]

Anyone know how you would you go about doing this with the standalone version running on linux?

[dimaj]

I'm curious too...
Do we have to modify the .sh script?