Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75733
invalid unicode characters cause directories to add to all playlists
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:28 EDT
Directories with invalid unicode characters get automagically added to *all* playlists in xmms. Here at work we have a NFS shared directory, /export/fs/mp3s, under which users can put personal CDs they've ripped to listen to at work. One of our users with questionable musical taste, ripped a CD, "Misty Eyed Adventures", by an artist named Maire Brennan. This was ripped under RH 7.1 or 7.2 in either C or ISO8859-1 or ISO8859-15 modes, creating a directory named /export/fs/mp3s/Maire Brennan - Misty Eyed Adventures Now, we have users running RHL 8.0. When they access any other directory under the /export/fs/mp3s directory (say, /export/fs/mp3s/White_Noise, for example) in xmms, the files in /export/fs/mp3s/Maire Brennan - Misty Eyed Adventures automatically get added to the XMMS playlist. The problem appears to be that the a in Maire is encoded improperly for Unicode -- on RHL 8 machines, this directory appears as M ire Brennan, and Nautilus even warns that it's invalid Unicode. I'll attach a dump of the /export/fs/mp3s directory inode. The inode in question (the Maire Brennan directory) is 13025284. By itself, the change in encoding from 7.2 to 8.0 isn't a problem. The problem is that xmms is automatically adding this directory to all playlists. Presumably it's getting confused by the invalid unicode, but some of our users are already using this bug in xmms for practical jokes....
Created attachment 80024 [details] dump of /export/fs/mp3s inode
It definitely appears to be due to Unicode wackiness. If the users run LANG=C xmms & then the badly encoded directory doesn't automagically get added to their playlists
Hmm, bugzilla automatically stripped it. The "a" in Maire above has an accent above it.
Moved upstream here: http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918