Bug 33152

Summary:	Doesn't show the lyrics of karaoke files encoded in cp-1251
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmid	Reporter:	Alex Chudnovsky <chalex20>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Antonio Larrosa <larrosa>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Alex Chudnovsky 2001-10-01 09:58:42 UTC

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Package:           kmid
Version:           KDE 2.2.1 
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

I have plenty of karaoke files produced in microsoft-cp-1251 encoding. Kmid doesn't succeed to show those files correctly even if cp-1251 encoding is selected in font settings. I use the QT_XFT rendering mechanism. The lyrics when saved separately is displayed all right by Konqueror.

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Comment 1 Sergey A. Galin 2003-05-04 00:13:57 UTC

I've already posted another bug report which explains why KMid cannot display
non-ASCII characters at all.

If you want a quick fix allowing to play Russian karaoke by KMid, please email me to
thelivingone at mail ru.

Comment 2 Sergey A. Galin 2003-05-04 00:19:18 UTC

One more: it's impossible to make support for Russian karaoke files without
adding a manual selection of lyrics charset, because all Russian karaoke uses
CP1251 while default Russian codepage for Linux is KOI8-R. 

For the moment, I use a dirty hack which converts all bytes in lyrics by
recoding table assuming that lyrics are in CP1251 and system uses KOI8.

Comment 3 Sergey A. Galin 2003-07-08 16:01:26 UTC

I've made up a Russian page containing the hack and instructions how to use it.
http://sage.hellmachine.net/oss/KMid-Russian.php

Comment 4 Sergey A. Galin 2003-07-23 10:05:07 UTC

The URL in my previous post is incorrect. Should be:
http://sageshome.net/oss/KMid-Russian.php

Comment 5 Sergey A. Galin 2003-07-23 10:08:28 UTC

Please see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58083 for more information about
the Russian lyrics problem.

Comment 6 Thiago Macieira 2003-07-23 12:01:26 UTC

It's the same bug. The other one is more generic. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58083 ***