playback of unicode characters on filenames under Windows now works

Author: jschaul

CommandBar.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 import talkshowUtils
 def loadImage(path):
     newpath = talkshowUtils.getRelativePath(path)
-    return pyglet.image.load(newpath.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()))
+    return pyglet.image.load(newpath)
 
 
 class CommandBar(object):

talkshow.py

@@ -277,10 +277,6 @@ def __init__(self, config, screen, player):
 
 
         self.player = player
-
-        #self.player.play("content/Drei/nicht_nur_europa.wav")
-        
-        #self.DoLayout()
 
         self.count = 9    
 
@@ -510,7 +506,7 @@ def onFieldClicked(self, f):
             #self.playPath_AudioRecorder(self.pathPrefix + self.pathForField(f.index))
 
     def iconForPath(self, path):
-        images = glob.glob1(path, "*.png")
+        images = glob.glob1(path, u"*.png")
         if images:
             imagePath = os.path.join(path, images[0])
             image = wrappers.Image(None, name=imagePath, path=imagePath)
@@ -526,7 +522,7 @@ def cancelVideo(self):
 
     def playPath(self, path):
 
-        mediaPatterns = ["*.wav", "*.avi", "*.wmv", "*.mpg", "*.mp3", "*.wma", "*.asf", "*.midi", "*.aiff", "*.au", "*.m4a"]
+        mediaPatterns = [u"*.wav", u"*.avi", u"*.wmv", u"*.mpg", u"*.mp3", u"*.wma", u"*.asf", u"*.midi", u"*.aiff", u"*.au", u"*.m4a"]
         mediaPatterns_uppercase = [pattern.upper() for pattern in mediaPatterns]
         mediaPatterns += mediaPatterns_uppercase
         mediaFiles = []

vlcPlayer.py

@@ -30,11 +30,13 @@ def stop(self):
 
 
     def play(self, path_to_media_file):
+        debug(u"attempting to play file: {0} of type: {1} and repr: {2}".format(path_to_media_file, type(path_to_media_file), repr(path_to_media_file)))
+        encoded_path=path_to_media_file.encode("UTF-8")
         if not os.path.isfile(path_to_media_file):
-            warn("This file: {0} does not exist. Full path: {1}".format(path_to_media_file, os.path.abspath(path_to_media_file)))
+            warn(u"This file: {0} does not exist. Full path: {1}".format(path_to_media_file, os.path.abspath(path_to_media_file)))
             return
         try:
-            media = self.instance.media_new(path_to_media_file)
+            media = self.instance.media_new(encoded_path)
         except Exception as e:
             logger.exception("exception! {0}".format(e))
             warn('NameError: %s (LibVLC %s)' % (sys.exc_info()[1],vlc.libvlc_get_version()))