[mpris] [ANN] MPRIS v2.0

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Mirsal Ennaime
> <mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mirsal Ennaime
>>> Actually just now looking at the D-Bus spec:
>>> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-marshaling-object-path
>>>
>>> The requirement that "Each element must only contain the ASCII
>>> characters "[A-Z][a-z][0-9]_" does mean that a map might have to be
>>> maintained. Or some sort of coding and decoding function that I
>>> haven't heard of needs to be used, or else we're kinda screwed when it
>>> comes to non-ASCII characters in the file name. (If it allowed % it
>>> would be easy, just use HTML encoding, but it doesn't).
>>
>> Ah, this is indeed an issue.
>> Using base64 encoding would work though.
>
>  Yeah, we had a similar issue with object IDs: Putting them in URLs
> and making crappy upnp devices (that can't deal with various non-ASCII
> characters in URIs) happy and we solved it using base64 encoding.

Ok, good. :)

Ian