xmms hates umlauts in ogg files!

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Or other odd characters. ogg123 reproduces them just fine, but if I try to play something by Björk, for example, it comes up as "Björk". Umlauts &c in mp3s display correctly.

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XMMS uses GTK1 which does not support fonts very well at all, and I think that it skips any sort of unicode or something like that. Emerge beep-media-player, which is basically a GTK2 version of XMMS, and you will be good to go.

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Thanks for the tip. I'm trying beep out now; one problem I've encountered is that I can't use pyxmms (they link to it from their home page and some functions work, some don't--xmms.control.toggle_shuffle() leads to an immediate crash).

I tried a trivial rewrite to pyxmms to use beep libs and include files, but when I import it I get:
>>> import bmp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr//lib/python2.3/site-packages/bmp/__init__.py", line 36, in ?
from control import *
File "/usr//lib/python2.3/site-packages/bmp/control.py", line 211, in ?
from _bmpcontrol import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/libbeep.so.2: undefined symbol: gconf_value_new
>>>