[Flac] Flac has a problem testing with the "�" and "�" characters

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 17 13:05:18 PDT 2007


--- Paul Jackson <paulgjackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whenever Flac does a test (-t) against a file with the special
> character indicated by a upper or lower case o with a diagonal
> line/forward
> slash through it, it fails with a ERROR INITIALIZING DECODER - INIT
> STATUS ERROR OPENING FILE.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98
> 
> An example of actual failing file names are:
> 
> 02 Tl�n.flac
> 05 �rnen.flac
> 
> The files test out OK with the flactester application included with
> FLAC as well as the audiotester application from the vuplayer web
> site.
> 
> Flac seems to handle all of my other special characters just fine.
> 
> The reason this comes up is because the converter batch file that I
> use does a test of the file before converting.
> 
> Any ideas?

I'm pretty sure it's related to this:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__unicode_filenames_windows

I think some non-ascii chars will work but the majority won't

Josh



       
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