Chracter-set issues

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hey there,
A few of the artists and music in my library contain japanese characters, but they don't properly show within supersonic desktop:

Here are the titles and some more examples:

'ネザーnether - SLUSHWAVE 2024.mp3'
'憂鬱 - End.mp3'
'猫 シ Corp. - FORUM 消費者[kuluttaja].mp3'
'猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - Ｂｌｕｅ  Ｄｒｅａｍ.mp3'
'秋 - Live @ Slushwave 2024.mp3'
'秋 - 私はまだあなたが必要です + 屋久島 + 大山隠岐国 + 夜間 (extended version).mp3'

I'm on SSD v0.13.1.
Any chance that you could fix this?
Thanks!

[dweymouth]

Supersonic loads fonts from the OS as needed to display characters not in the base font, but this does look like a character encoding issue, like your files are not tagged with UTF-8 metadata. Do you know the character set encoding of your media file tags? It seems it's currently assuming everything is UTF-8 (which is the default in the Go programming language and on most modern systems). I also have not run into a non-UTF-8 tagged media file myself. I may need you to attach a media file here or email me one to test with before I can look into this issue. I guess Supersonic will need to use some character encoding library to detect encodings of all the file tags and convert them to UTF-8 on the fly if needed?

[UltraBlackLinux]

I have honestly no idea how to check that. They display fine in my terminal and that is using UTF-8:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Here's some files that you could grab with yt-dl - that's how I got them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45xy5o4uj8&list=PLSBYfyLFV5VHV8Tj4BKlNYHqcUQcE0E0f

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hm I just noticed that if you show the track info for a track with these characters it shows the correct filename, but it doesn't in the "Artists" section. Maybe something went wrong during file tagging...

I used id3v2 for that, and it shows all characters correctly.

I did however also just notice that supersonic crashed when I pressed the "copy" button next to the track name, maybe something on supersonic's side after all

[thecivilizedgamer]

I just installed Supersonic, it looks and works great so far, nice work! The experience is very polished.

However, I'm seeing something similar on Xubuntu 24.04. I haven't dug into any details yet, but Japanese characters are showing fine in Nextcloud Music and not in Supersonic. I'll attach screenshots, let me know what info I can provide.

[dweymouth]

@thecivilizedgamer Your issue is different and probably easy to solve - yours is just that Supersonic (or rather the Fyne UI toolkit) cannot find a suitable font to show Japanese characters. You could try installing the fonts-noto-cjk apt package and it might solve it for you.

Edit: also make sure you are using the latest version, 0.13.1

[thecivilizedgamer]

@thecivilizedgamer Your issue is different and probably easy to solve - yours is just that Supersonic (or rather the Fyne UI toolkit) cannot find a suitable font to show Japanese characters. You could try installing the fonts-noto-cjk apt package and it might solve it for you.

Edit: also make sure you are using the latest version, 0.13.1

Hmmm, looks like I already have that package installed, but I'll do some more googling to see if I can isolate the problem. And I'm on 0.13.1 (the Flatpak version).

[dweymouth]

Hmm, perhaps try the direct installation if you're able. It's possible Flatpak permissions could be preventing the OS font lookup from happening

[thecivilizedgamer]

I just did the direct install, and it works fine now :) When I downloaded the archive, I saw the Makefile and assumed that was for installing from source, so that's why I initially went with the Flatpak option. Thanks for the help!