[.net] problem with unicode characters in path?

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	[.net] problem with unicode characters in path?

xschemer Guest
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2009-03-01 05:12:58

A user of one of my programs pointed out that playing the file with the following path doesn't work (the "..." is just a part of the path which doesn't cause the problem):

C:/Users/[...]/music/kaç&305;k kaç&305;k/file.mp3

I always get an "Illegal characters in path"-exception, so i tried to track down the problem and ended up at my own implementation of IFileFactory. But this can't really cause the problem:


...
public Stream openFile(string filename)
{
    if (filename.StartsWith("http://"))
    {
        // Some Code for Streaming
    }
    else
    {
        return new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
    }
}
...

I found out that the parameter filename contains a mallformed value: I pass the correct filename to Play2D and it reaches my FileFactory being malformed and shortened. I guess this happens when the filename is processed in the c++-part of the assembly which might not fully support unicode.

It's not that urgent but perhaps you know some kind of solution.
Thanks.

Yannick

niko Moderator
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2009-03-01 18:17:32

Oh, thanks, that's a bug. I don't think there is a workaround for this currently, going to fix this soon.

hattonjohn Registered User
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2009-04-17 06:40:13

This is a big deal for our users... we want to name sound files after the words they are recordings of... this nice plan falls down if the character is in some non-roman language. Thanks for looking into this, Niko.

BlastOffTek Guest
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2012-11-07 15:36:50

Uh, bumping this old topic,
are you guys still working on this? I'm confirming this bug with v1.4.0, with directory names containing characters from the Greek char set ("[...]\&902;&963;&954;&951;&963;&951; &954;&961;&943;&963;&949;&969;&962; &948;&953;&945;&955;&972;&947;&959;&965;\&902;&963;&954;&951;&963;&951; &954;&961;&943;&963;&949;&969;&962; &948;&953;&945;&955;&972;&947;&959;&965;\&942;&967;&959;&953;\1.mp3"), with visual basic express 2010. It actually kept me troubled for a whole day. :-(
FYI Windows media player COM plugin also experiences similar bug.

niko Moderator
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2012-11-08 07:26:45

Yes, but unfortunately, this requires a bit more work, and most users are not affected by this. Usually, if you are using your own file system, you can easily work around this by using short filenames instead (as described here http://www.ambiera.com/forum.php... for example)

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