From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Description of problem: Rhythmbox does not seem to be able to render/display foreign characters. For exampley names and titles with umlauts are represented by a capitol a and a 1/4 sysmbol. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhythmbox-6.5-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run rhythmbox 2.import any name or title with a non-english letter or symbol. 3.symbol is jumbled. Expected Results: Rhythmbox would be able to display international characters like all other GNOME components. Additional info:
I use rhytmbox with swedish locale a lot without any problems and have just verified rhythmbox-0.6.5-1 to work with swedish chars flawlessly. (That includes both untagged music with international characters in their filenames and .ogg files with international characters in the tags) Could you perhaps specify a bit more how I might reproduce this problem?
Created attachment 97637 [details] screenshot of characters not read correctly The name should read Husker Du with umlauds instead of over the u's. The name is Danish for "Do you remember."
This is an issue that has apparently been discussed on the rhythmbox mailing list. It has something to do with unicode encoding (UTF-16)??? and the way the id3 information is written. So the rhythmbox people are aware of the issue, but I thought it might help to have RedHat/Fedora to lean on them a little bit. This issue is really cosmetic and should happen rather rarely. I have included a screen shot of the problem. As it was filed as a cosmetic/enhancement bug I do not think that it is of great importance to fix. It should only be fixed if this fix is easy.
Since fedora isn't (to my knowledge) capable of plaing mp3 music and displaying id3 tags without third party addons and since internationalized filenames and metadata displays correctly with the supported music format ogg/vorbis I think this bug should be closed. However, since this is a test release, chances are that new upstream versions of components such as rhytmbox will be integrated in the final fedora release. Fixig problems even in unsupported parts of components upstream will then be included in fedora.
Your assessment is fair enough. I did not know that ogg/vorbis does not use id3 tags (as I did not use ogg yet). However, in terms of Fedora:rhythmbox reading and displaying id3 data, the tags are produced through Fedora's sound-juicer (albeit using a recompiled gstreamer to get lame). In line with RedHat/Fedora's policy on mp3's et al. this bug should be closed. I appologize for my negligence in remembering which components are kosher and which are not and how the system fits together.
That's totally OK, of course :) You know you can close bugs you opened yourself? Just select what you feel like a proper solution (for this one I would say NOTABUG, or WONTFIX) Under the "Bug changes" headline below. I suppose keeping the open bug lists of the package maintainers short is a good idea in all cases :)