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clam

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Registered: 2005-12-28

Posts: 33

ncmpc unicode question

Does anyone have ncmpc working with unicode?  I use rxvt-unicode which displays chinese characters correctly in the commandline, however, this effect disappears when I use ncmpc.

Exclamation

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 53

Re: ncmpc unicode question

I think you need ncmpc-svn from aur for unicode

clam

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Registered: 2005-12-28

Posts: 33

Re: ncmpc unicode question

that's what i'm using. am I suppose to configure anything in particular? No solution?

Last edited by clam (2007-07-26 23:12:02)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: ncmpc unicode question

Any solutions to this?

I have the same problem so I try to compile ncmpc-svn. I ran versionpkg -m and the makepkg. Build fails. I see this in AUR "also you need to manually enter the plugins directory and compile the
plugins in the new svn. Latest svn also depends on expat according to namcap." Can someone explain this to a layman ?

Chinese (and other) encoding is most important for me, but I would also like to check out the svn

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: ncmpc unicode question

That comment was made by me after reading the INSTALL file, however the claim about having to enter plugins directories and compiling those manually might be false. According to the README all needed to be run is the autogen.sh script and then make, making me believe it'll take the necessary steps to build the plugins specified to be enabled when running autogen.sh.

Downloading the PKGBUILD and changing the pkgver to 6978 (the latest revision) and then running makepkg -c works just fine for me. I got songs with åäö in them and they're display fine with ncmpc-svn, and I'm running with UTF-8 (a mix between en_US.utf8 and sv_SE.utf8 locales).

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