Unicode characters not shown correctly in Open Recent menu

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Play a file with unicode characters in the filename/tag.
2. Check the Open Recent menu.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The filename should be displayed correctly. Instead the unicode characters will 
be replaced by "?" or missing.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Gnome-mplayer 1.0.2 on Arch Linux

Please provide any additional information below.

My guess is that Gnome-mplayer is reading the file tags instead of the filename 
since mplayer doesn't show the filename properly either. Maybe the Open Recent 
menu should be changed to read the actual filename and not tags.

I have uploaded a screenshot as well as text file with the output of mplayer 
-vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify on an affected file.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 31337H4c...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2011 at 6:01

Attachments:

• screenshot-Sat-Mar-26--10-59-08.png
• mplayer_output.txt

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The metadata should be able to be fixed by setting the encoding locale in 
Edit->Preferences [Language Settings]

As for the recent menu, I will need to look into that. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2011 at 11:00

[GoogleCodeExporter]

BTW, what locale is your machine currently running in?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2011 at 11:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

My locale is en_US.utf8

Original comment by 31337H4c...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 5:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

my environment variable LANG is set to the following LANG=en_US.UTF-8

And I have the same problem, it appears that mplayer is not reading/processing 
the metadata in UTF-8. So this will need to be fixed by the mplayer team.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 12:57

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Closing due to upstream problem in mplayer

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 2:31

• Changed state: WontFix