Foreign letters (aka. norwegian letters)

[Espenhh]

Hey

It would be great if subsonic could handle non-english letters. I guess you understand what I mean. Don't we all love those nice norwegian letters? ÆØÅ!!!

[sindre_mehus]

Hi Espen,

Do you have some examples? Non-english characters works for me (I'm using Opera/Firefox/IE on Windows).

It might be a browser/OS issue. Maybe I need to specify the character encoding in the HTML.

What browser/OS are you using?

Regards,
Sindre

[sindre_mehus]

Hm, maybe you're thinking about what is displayed inside the players (Winamp etc)?

In that case, I'm afraid there is not much to do. The SHOUTcast protocol which is used to transmit meta-data to the player is limited to ASCII characters only. Hence, I have to convert accented characters to the closest ASCII equivalent.

[Espenhh]

Hmm, you are right

I guess it's just at problem with the ID3-tags of some of my songs. When I looked closer on my musiclist I recogniced many norwegian letters But many of them has just "_" instead of the letters. But that works, I understand what it is anyway

[Alekoy]

I'm sorry to pull this thread up again, but I felt like it was better than starting a new one, to ask about the same issue.

My problem seems to bee with folder names, "Vømmøl Spellmannslag" for instance shows up like "Vømmøl Spellmannslag"
but the tags show up with ÆØÅ.
have tried in both Opera and Explorer and on zSubsonic, but it is the same thing.

the server is running on FreeNAS.

[rockman]

the server is running on FreeNAS.

This seems to be an issue with FreeNAS, as I am having the same trouble, and the files/folders in question had been displayed properly when I was using Windows as the OS. Unfortunately, I am very new to FreeNAS, so if there is a solution, I am unaware of it.

[Biggen]

Hi,
Sorry for taking up this old tread..... Again......

My problem with Norwegians letters Æ, Ø, Å is that I do not see them at all.
And when they appear in a song I will get the usually cryptic signs. But my biggest problem is that when this caricatures appear the song will not play, and they do not sort right (alphabetic or number vice). And as soon I change out Ø Æ, Å caricatures everything is ok, and the song will play.

My config of Subsonic, is on a Apache web server on an Ubuntu distro. And all of my songs is on a mapped network share. When I read the earlier post, I guess my issue is that I have all songs on a mapped network share.

This problems accrue in any Internet browsers......

Is it a way to fix this, without moving my songs to local source....????

[oeh]

Hi,
Sorry for taking up this old tread..... Again......

My problem with Norwegians letters Æ, Ø, Å is that I do not see them at all.
And when they appear in a song I will get the usually cryptic signs. But my biggest problem is that when this caricatures appear the song will not play, and they do not sort right (alphabetic or number vice). And as soon I change out Ø Æ, Å caricatures everything is ok, and the song will play.

My config of Subsonic, is on a Apache web server on an Ubuntu distro. And all of my songs is on a mapped network share. When I read the earlier post, I guess my issue is that I have all songs on a mapped network share.

This problems accrue in any Internet browsers......

Is it a way to fix this, without moving my songs to local source....????

Same here. Almost went ballistic on x-mast eve searching for Jussi Bjørling with O helga natt. At the last moment I found it when ftping in to my server.
It's there on the server, but nor showing up in Subsonic.

[Biggen]

Hi,
Sorry for taking up this old tread..... Again......

My problem with Norwegians letters Æ, Ø, Å is that I do not see them at all.
And when they appear in a song I will get the usually cryptic signs. But my biggest problem is that when this caricatures appear the song will not play, and they do not sort right (alphabetic or number vice). And as soon I change out Ø Æ, Å caricatures everything is ok, and the song will play.

My config of Subsonic, is on a Apache web server on an Ubuntu distro. And all of my songs is on a mapped network share. When I read the earlier post, I guess my issue is that I have all songs on a mapped network share.

This problems accrue in any Internet browsers......

Is it a way to fix this, without moving my songs to local source....????

Same here. Almost went ballistic on x-mast eve searching for Jussi Bjørling with O helga natt. At the last moment I found it when ftping in to my server.
It's there on the server, but nor showing up in Subsonic.

WOW.... That´s so strange..... I had this problem for a while, but I started to post this problem now because I could not play the song O helga natt with Tommy Körberg.......
Anyway..... I can see the songs with æ, ø, å in them, but instead for æøå, I will see special characters, and I can´t play the song. And the sorting is all wrong...... #¤%#¤#¤¤….
Please help anyone…..

[jarome]

I don't mind if the accented characters are changed, but all my files that have accented names or folders that do are not indexed by the subsonic server, so I cannot play them! This is on OpenSUSE 11.4. So what do I do? I have 50,000 tracks and cannot redo them all...

[BKKKPewsey]

If you had looked at a more recent thread regarding this problem you may have the answer you are looking for.
See http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=29693#p29693

[jarome]

No, that link only has one suggestion (set locale to norwegian), but that will not work for an international music collection.
For example,
"Die Walküre; Gary Lakes, Jessye Norman, Kurt Moll, Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra And Chorus"
does not index.
Most Wagner operas have umlauts in their names.

[BKKKPewsey]

This would appear to a OS problem rather then a SS one because as you can see, from my post in the link I posted,
SS displays. searches for, and plays tracks with umlauts with no problem in windows.