Bug 503405 - Media Player widget character encoding bug
Summary: Media Player widget character encoding bug
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Media Player widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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: 512391 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2025-04-26 21:56 UTC by Sylens
Modified: 2025-11-20 14:53 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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2025-04-26 21:56 UTC, Sylens
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Description Sylens 2025-04-26 21:56:53 UTC
Created attachment 180693 [details]
bug

When I play music within a folder that has special characters such as á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, ű  - the media player widget puts there a questionmark... for example on the attached photo, I'm playing a music within a folder /home/username/Zenék (thats in hungarian, the english equivalent would be of course /home/username/Music) 

Tried out with different media players such as - Haruna, Juk, Elisa. 

With Juk, the character was displayed correctly.
With Elisa and Haruna, the character was displayed incorrectly.


Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Quadro K620
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Product Name: ESPRIMO E510
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-07-31 19:55:11 UTC
I can reproduce this on git-master
Filenames with UTF-8 characters are displayed correctly, but folders are not.
Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2025-08-04 13:54:22 UTC
The relevant text comes from the xesam:url property from MPRIS. The media player expects the value to be URL-encoded, but Elisa (and likley other players too) don't do that
Comment 3 Sylens 2025-08-04 15:19:42 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #2)
> The relevant text comes from the xesam:url property from MPRIS. The media
> player expects the value to be URL-encoded, but Elisa (and likley other
> players too) don't do that

then elisa and likely the other players should be fixed instead.
Comment 4 Sylens 2025-10-24 16:57:06 UTC
Still an issue as of 2025. october 24.

Operating System: Kubuntu 25.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.0-5-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Quadro K620
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Product Name: ESPRIMO E510
Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2025-11-20 14:53:45 UTC
*** Bug 512391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***