SOLVED - LOF - File for Audacity - Does not support "Umlaute" and special characters öé

[reinhardwh]

Hello,

in case profile name contain "Umlaute" öäü or special characters like é also the WAV filename contains these characters when recording.

Within the LOF file also the name will be used. Example "Zuhörer"

Audacity cannot import files with special characters.

Is it possible to convert filenames and replace such characters using a-z 0-1 when recording.

[ann0see]

Maybe it's related to encoding? Can you open an issue on this topic please (best on the audacity repository).

[reinhardwh]

Hej ann0see,
just tested, encoding is ok ö = ö

Renamed my profile to Reinyö
-> LOF Datei cannot be imported to Audacity

Error Message Audacity

LOF Files created

LOF File content

When removing the "ö" from filename and correcting LOF file the import just works fine....

[ann0see]

So it is an issue in Audacity in my opinion.

[reinhardwh]

Well, u r right.
Option 1: Jamulus not creating files containing "öä.."
or
Option 2: Audacity allow importing files including "öä.."

[ann0see]

Jamulus not creating files containing "öä.."

For me that would mean a step backwards. My E-Mail provider does the same with passwords "for compatibility reasons" and personally I don't think that's the right approach. Can you contact audacity devs/open an issue on their repo?

Jamulus should use UTF8 (if it doesn't, we should probably try to add support).

[softins]

I wonder if this is an issue with UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1?

[reinhardwh]

Hello ann0see,

Contacted Audacity as suggested:

https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=116997

[reinhardwh]

Reply from Audacity:

`
Currently LOF files are limited to standard ASCII text characters only.
(See: lower ASCII characters table)

Please note that it is generally recommended to use standard ASCII characters only for file names as the use of other characters will frequently cause compatibility problems if the files are shared with other people, particularly when sharing across networks.
`

[reinhardwh]

Post from Audacity

https://www.paho.org/par/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=560-guide-to-proper-file-naming&category_slug=organizacion-de-la-representacion&Itemid=253