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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...

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?

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


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!

karvanapa wrote: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.

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

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

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