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Added UTF-8 locale check to the example script
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If you modified ''any'' of the required files Avdump2 came with, you will either get a version error or several timeouts and no meaningful error message. So no, you can’t edit the config file either. | If you modified ''any'' of the required files Avdump2 came with, you will either get a version error or several timeouts and no meaningful error message. So no, you can’t edit the config file either. | ||
'''Failed to create MediaInfoProvider''' | '''Failed to create MediaInfoProvider''' | ||
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<tt>Invalid value returned by mil. This error may indicate that your LANG or LC_ALL environment variables are not set to use UTF-8 encoding.</tt> | <tt>Invalid value returned by mil. This error may indicate that your LANG or LC_ALL environment variables are not set to use UTF-8 encoding.</tt> | ||
This error appears if you try to process a file with special characters in its name and your locale settings don’t match the file system encoding. Nowadays almost all file names are encoded with UTF-8 on Linux, so your locale should use that as well. If you work remotely on a server that sets LANG to “C” by default, it won’t work. Try setting LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, because that locale is installed almost everywhere by default. LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG. | This error appears if you try to process a file with special characters in its name and your locale settings don’t match the file system encoding. Nowadays almost all file names are encoded with UTF-8 on Linux, so your locale should use that as well. If you work remotely on a server that sets LANG to “C” by default, it won’t work. Try setting LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, because that locale is installed almost everywhere by default. LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG. Have a look at the example script below to see how to make the setting automatically. | ||
If you have a file with bogus characters in its name, even changing the locale won’t help. You have to rename the file to something sensible. | If you have a file with bogus characters in its name, even changing the locale won’t help. You have to rename the file to something sensible. | ||
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To make using Avdump2 more comfortable, you can use or modify this wrapper script to handle the workarounds. Save it as <tt>/usr/local/bin/avdump2cl</tt>, for example. This example assumes that you extracted Avdump2 to <tt>/usr/local/lib/avdump2</tt>. | To make using Avdump2 more comfortable, you can use or modify this wrapper script to handle the workarounds. Save it as <tt>/usr/local/bin/avdump2cl</tt>, for example. This example assumes that you extracted Avdump2 to <tt>/usr/local/lib/avdump2</tt>. | ||
A simple wrapper to set the <tt>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</tt> and to fix the cursor after using ^C: | A simple wrapper to set the <tt>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</tt>, check the locale for UTF-8 and to fix the cursor after using ^C: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
#!/bin/bash | #!/bin/bash | ||
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# If libMediaInfo still can't be found, uncomment this. | # If libMediaInfo still can't be found, uncomment this. | ||
#export MONO_PATH=${AVDUMP2_HOME} | #export MONO_PATH=${AVDUMP2_HOME} | ||
# Make sure that the locale uses UTF-8 encoding. | |||
# Remove this if your file system actually uses something else. | |||
shopt -s extglob | |||
if [ -z "$LC_ALL" ]; then | |||
LC_ALL="$LANG" | |||
fi | |||
echo LC_ALL=$LC_ALL | |||
if [ "$LC_ALL" == "${LC_ALL%[Uu][Tt][Ff]?(-)8}" ]; then | |||
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 | |||
fi | |||
export LC_ALL | |||
export LANG="$LC_ALL" | |||
if ! mono ${AVDUMP2_HOME}/AVDump2CL.exe "$@" ; then | if ! mono ${AVDUMP2_HOME}/AVDump2CL.exe "$@" ; then | ||