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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / March 2008WMP 9 Series does not recognize foreign characters?
Dear Everyone: I am using a Power Mac G5 machine, and there is a "Windows Media Player 9 Series" (WMP9) that came with the machine. When I visit some website, the WMP9 automatically starts to work if there is a sound file ending with "wma" at the webpage. However, sometimes, a page may contain foreign characters---which could be Chinese characters for example---in the path and/or file names, and in such a case, the WMP9 does not start. Instead, a small window pops up with the message: "Cannot open the file. Verify that the path and filename are correct and try again." How could I resolve/circumvent this problem? Thank you for reading and replying! --Roland >Dear Everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >How could I resolve/circumvent this problem? I'm not sure you (personally) can - it's the webmasters responsibility to handle character encoding correctly. A typical flow for accessing a media file would be : Browser reads HTM content; Browser interprets URLs (web addresses) according to the page encoding; Browser passes converted URL to application - in this case WMP, which attempts to open the URL it's passed as-is. If the page sending the content is not correctly handled by the browser, then WMP will be passed a dud URL and won't be able to handle it. These documents indicate typical ways that international character set data can be passed around in URLs, and as you can see, it's the webmasters job to ensure the URLs are properly encoded for which every character set their web page declares : http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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