Closed ghost closed 9 years ago
Thank you for bringing this to my attention! There is currently no support for BOM parsing / writing in this library.
After briefly educating myself on the BOM character, I think it is suitable for this library to provide optional support where the default is to assume it is not present. The UTF-8 specification says that a BOM should be optional and its use is not recommended since byte order is irrelevant to UTF-8. The BOM character seems to be used as a marker that the stream is UTF-8 rather than indicating byte order. This is confusing and not something that should be supported by default IMHO.
I will add optional support for reading / writing and let you know when it is ready.
@maikeldus I prepared PR #19 if you want to create your own snapshot build from the branch. I can't say exactly when a release will go out to Maven Central.
Thanks for the response! The issue is not critical so I will just wait for whenever the maven library gets updated. I have checked the merge request and the addition look good, I prefer the latest commit you provided.
I do still have another small question, do you know if it's possible to create m3u files (non-UTF8) that reference an UTF8 filename (with for example unicode usage in the filenames)? The default Android media implementation does not seem to support m3u8.
Thanks for sharing the code as a library btw ;)
Are you asking if you can create windows-1252 encoded files with the .m3u8 extension? You can explicitly set the encoding you want this library to use when parsing (utf-8 or windows-1252) so the filename's extension is not taken into account.
I just sent out a release for the 0.1.2 version. It may take a couple hours before it is publicly available. Please see if that works for you and then I can close this issue.
Sorry for the late response, it's working fine now. Thanks!
My question was about the default Android media implementation failing to parse UTF-8 playlist files, but I found a music player with a custom implementation.
Hi,
I created an playlist with this library and enabled the
Encoding.UTF8
flag. This playlist works fine in Winamp, but Foobar isn't able to play the UTF8 paths.After searching on the internet I found a topic talking about the BOM tag (first three bytes of the file: EF BB BF), I tested this with Foobar and it actually works!
Anyway, Am i missing some configuration option or is this missing from the library?
For reference: http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=93905
Edit: I temporarily solved it using:
Would ofcourse be nicer if the library would take care of this.