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tridus

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Registered: 2014-06-26

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[SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

When loading subtitles I get this warning:

Could not find a UTF-8 locale, 
character keys beyond Latin-1 will not be handled.

I'm pretty sure my locale is well defined (it's es_HN.UTF-8).

I have no idea what is wrong.

Last edited by tridus (2014-07-03 20:48:34)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

What's the output of `locale` and `locale -a`?

tridus

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

locale:

LANG=es_HN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_HN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

locale -a:

C
es_HN.utf8
POSIX

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

You're right, everything looks fine with your locale setup. No idea why you would have that error.

Cloudef

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Registered: 2010-10-12

Posts: 636

Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grawi … cale-check Try running this.

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tridus

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

./locale-check:

 * Parent:     266 /usr/bin/enlightenment
 * Terminal:   382 terminology
 * Shell:      388 /bin/bash

Looks good. ♥
 * You are using the es_HN.UTF-8 locale.
 * Shell's locale matches terminal's locale.
 * Terminal's locale matches parent process locale.

Cloudef

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Registered: 2010-10-12

Posts: 636

Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

So looking at mplayer source code, it seems to do really stupid thing and try set locale to C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8. If you don't have any of those locales generated, it assumes you don't have UTF-8 locale and spouts that message. (Most likely your subtitles will still be fine though?)

mpv doesn't seem to have this behaviour in source code as far I see, and I suggest trying it instead. (It's a fork that pulls both mplayer and mplayer2 and improves over them)

Last edited by Cloudef (2014-07-03 18:40:30)

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tridus

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

I tested some Spanish subtitles, and it rendered the special characters correctly. So I guess it's an innocuous warning after all.

Latin-1 characters can be handled with an option in the config file: `subcp=latin1`

I will try mpv if I find more problems.

Last edited by tridus (2014-07-03 20:46:56)

lolilolicon

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Re: [SOLVED] MPLAYER "Could not find a UTF-8 locale"

mpv ftw
mplayer wtf

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