Accented characters in Shoutcast broadcast?

[beerslayer]

This is a problem I've been seeing for some time now:

I have a server on an internal network that is broadcasting a program using Shoutcast v1.5.0, which can be picked up by a number of Winamp client machines using v2.62 on the same network.

Some of the song titles are in French, which uses accented characters (é, è, à, ç, ô, etc.). These accented characters are not displayed properly on the Winamp client side - they are replaced by something resembling a 'y' (ASCII 255???). http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/frown.gif

Note that these characters are displayed perfectly on the machine sending the program, even in the scrolling taskbar button. It is at the receiving side that they do not appear correctly.

I'm guessing that they are probably sent that way, making this a Shoutcast issue rather than a Winamp issue, but I didn't see a similar board under Shoutcast to post the issue to.

-- The Beerslayer

[beerslayer]

Has anyone else seen this problem? Please add your tales of woe to this bug report in order to encourage the fine folks at Winamp to fix this problem... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/cool.gif

-- The Beerslayer

[afx114]

yes i have similar problems when broadcasting artists like husker du, bjork, and u-ziq (with the 2 dots over the u's, o's, and the "mu" symbol). this has been occuring for well over a year, and i've sent bug reports to shoutcast many times. to no avail. it's a simple fix, shoutcast, please handle it. thanks, dudes.

-j

[beerslayer]

Thanks, Afx, for your feedback...

Now, maybe if we can keep adding to this thread every few days so that more people see it, perhaps we can generate more complaints so that the wonderful, ultra-responsive gods* at Winamp will take pity on us mere mortals and fix the damn thing!

-- The Beerslayer

* - It never hurts to suck up... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

[Mr. Ice]

1) ascii 255 looks like a blank space.
2) it's a shoutcast bug. as you said yourself, winamp displays the name just fine.
3) don't bump a thread. it's annoying.

[beerslayer]

to "Mr. Ice":
1) Not true. In a DOS window it does, but many other programs, including apparently Winamp, display the character as a lower-case 'y' with an umlaut (two dots) over it. If you doubt me, open the accessory Character Map and select almost any TrueType font (try Times New Roman).
2) Your point? If I'm not mistaken, it's the same people developing both, and there is no equivalent forum at the Shoutcast site. And at any rate, it is the interaction between Shoutcast and Winamp that is in question here.
3) It is utterly irrelevant to me whether you are annoyed or not. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif And it makes more sense to keep this thread alive than to have to create a new one. How many other duplicate threads are out there?

-- The Beerslayer

[afx114]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. Ice:
1) ascii 255 looks like a blank space.
2) it's a shoutcast bug. as you said yourself, winamp displays the name just fine.
3) don't bump a thread. it's annoying.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

1) hey mr. ice, now that there's a shoutcast forum, why not move this thread over there so that the shoutcast people can fix this punk ass bug that makes us shoutcast dj's look stupid.
2) don't be a dick. it's annoying.
2) thanks dude, you're the greatest.

-j

[Mr. Ice]

beerslayer:
1) the ascii code 255 is a blank space. open notepad. press the alt key, then hit 255. you will get a null space. to get the ÿ character, you have to use the extended ascii sequence of alt and 0255.

2) no longer applicable, but the bug still has nothing to do with winamp.

3) it shouldn't be utterly irrelevant to you, especially since i can lock this thread with the click of my mouse. threads that get bumped get locked. it's a common practice on every board i've ever seen. and most of the time the person who bumped it gets a temp ban from the forum if they do it more than once.


afx114:
1) i'll do that as soon as i finish this post.

2) i guess you're lucky i'm being a nice dick today.

[beerslayer]

FWIW, this problem does seem to be fixed in SHOUTcast v1.8.0. Once I upgraded both the server and the plugin to the 1.8.0 version, accented characters in the display were shown correctly.

Thanks, Nullsoft, for fixing this one!

-- The Beerslayer