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0009337ardourbugspublic2023-05-17 20:05
Reporteraceku Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritytweakReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformGNUOSLinuxOS Version(any)
Product Version7.4 
Summary0009337: filenames with german umlaute
Descriptionwhen i import a file with german umlaute (or other UTF-8 characters) in the filename, i get an import error of the ardour file after reopening it in ardour.

 ERROR: XML error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !Bytes: 0xE2 0x80 0x5F 0x39 in /home/alex/Ardour/nina_simone_go_to_hell/nina_simone_go_to_hell.ardour at line 89:37

this wav file: Und_fällt_eine kün_473251317.wav

line 89:
<Source name="Und_fällt_eine_kün_473251317.wav" take-id="" type="audio" flags="" id="85822" natural-position="a0" channel="0" origin="" gain="1"/>
Steps To Reproduceimport this wav file: Und_fällt_eine kün_473251317.wav
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related to 0009317 resolvedx42 Ardour refuses to open projects with the PS-20 VST/VST3 in them 

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x42

2023-05-17 16:29

administrator   ~0027658

Last edited: 2023-05-17 16:29

That looks like your file-system or locale is not using UTF8, but ISO-8859-1

Does it work when you create a track in Ardour using umlauts? - If so then the issue is with the filename of the imported file.

Can you open a terminal window, run
locale

and post the output?

aceku

2023-05-17 20:05

reporter   ~0027659

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-05-17 16:17 aceku New Issue
2023-05-17 16:29 x42 Note Added: 0027658
2023-05-17 16:29 x42 Note Edited: 0027658
2023-05-17 16:29 x42 Note Edited: 0027658
2023-05-17 16:30 x42 Relationship added related to 0009317
2023-05-17 20:05 aceku Note Added: 0027659