On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Oren Held wrote:

> Hi,
>
> xmms is the last software left where I have to read hebrew backwards.
> I'm waiting for the gtk2 port for quite a long time and it won't go out,
> but apparently I'm not alone. Beep Media Player (BMP in short) is a fork
> from the xmms tree which already implements gtk2, and works pretty fine
> (with few bugs still, it's a beta).
>
> However.. I still cannot see my hebrew songs well: because now with
> gtk2/pango, it expects filenames/id3 in the unicode format, which I
> don't use (I assume most of us don't). I want to suggest the BMP team to
> add an option 'no unicode filenames'. I just don't know gtk2/pango too
> well and I'm not sure whether that's exactly what they should add in
> order to make us happy.. I assume they just have to use some
> iso8859-8->utf-8 converting function (because if we want pango to render
> it fine, with bidi, it should convert the non-unicode text to unicode).
>
> Anybody has something smart to say?

Most probably the best thing I can say is "forget about that".
And something smart is to write a few lines of python (really
few) to convert your id3 tags to Unicode once for all.

>  - Oren

behdad

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