Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract crashes

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/09/11 17:48, John stacy wrote:
> Hello Jurg/Martyn,

Hello John,

> I have looked more closely into the tracker-extract-mp3.so regarding the
> mp3 crash I am having on my ubuntu.
>
> I found out that I am getting *g_convert* error from the
> convert_to_encoding() function.
> the Error message from the g_convert is :- *Conversion from character
> set 'Windows-1252' to 'UTF-8' is not supported*.

Hmm, interesting.

> there by passing NULL to the "g_strsplit ()" function.

That's indeed not good.

> To get the conversion support what do I have to do? do I require any
> thing else?

g_convert() uses iconv_open() underneath and that has supported 
character sets as seen with iconv --list (on the command line).

I would expect g_convert() to work here actually:

 $ iconv --list |grep 1252
 CP1252//
 WINDOWS-1252//

> any special configuration options to the glib or libc to enable this one?

Not that I know of, this is more of a GLib question I would say. From 
quick inspection of GLib, I wonder if it's because we should be using 
the EXACT string here (i.e. upper case "WINDOWS-"), I would try that 
first. Though I would be surprised if that really helps here, I would 
expect the encoding to be considered case insensitively.

We should still have a check before sending the output to g_strsplit() 
in any case because we can't guarantee it will work.

> The other parameters passed to the g_convert has the valid readable
> ID3Tag information.

Yea, that's why I believe it's not a case issue. Worth checking anyway.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.