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bogdan2011

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Registered: 2012-01-13

Posts: 44

Clementine can't play files with special characters

I saw Clementine can't play some mp3 files - it would just say "error loading file".
So I opened an mp3 from the terminal and found out that the problem was the characters in the file name.
For example, it wouldn't play "Schiller - Tired (mit Jaël).mp3" but works fine with "Schiller - Tired (mit Jael)"
Any ideas why?

haiku

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From: Chambery, France

Registered: 2011-01-28

Posts: 19

Re: Clementine can't play files with special characters

A bit of a shot in the dark here, but you could try re-configuring your locales:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ng_locales

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stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Clementine can't play files with special characters

do a locale as your user, I wouldn't be surprised if the first 3 lines of the output was the system complaining about a locale it can't set.

if so, see if you need to merge locale.gen and locale.gen.pacnew, the wikipage posted above lists the rest you need to know.

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bogdan2011

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Registered: 2012-01-13

Posts: 44

Re: Clementine can't play files with special characters

Well...

[bogdan@myhost ~]$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
[bogdan@myhost ~]$