strange collection(scanner) behaviour

[Alex Merry]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 02:02:04 Rafał Rzepecki wrote:
> On 10/31/08, Rafał Rzepecki <divided.mind at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/31/08, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> >> Different distro. Different places we store our music in.
> >> He is currently trying to find out more with git bisect.
> >
> > Actually I'm trying the harder (but more fun) way after all -- the
> > old-fashioned debugging. I think I'm getting somewhere; the collection
> > scanner sometimes, for some reason, puts the './' directory in the
> > database. Obviously there must be a quirk about mine and Lydia's
> > collection that exposes the bug.
>
> Ok, I got a testcase. It turns out that it's funny characters that
> freaks amarok out. Just do $ mkdir `printf "\302\234"` anywhere in
> your collection, and that's it -- the directory gets added as './'.
>
> I am currently investigating why would it be so.

One thing to check: UTF-8 vs. non-UTF-8 locales.  I've had problems with the 
collection scanner in the past due to my system not being in UTF-8.

Alex



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