Arcane CLI encoding issue

[AndrewFG]

Can anyone help me with some arcane issues concerning character encoding of CLI commands?

I am trying to pass a Norwegian string "Engegårdkvartetten" into a CLI command. According to my research this should be encoded as "Engeg%C3%A5rdkvartetten". However when I send that to the CLI, the response echo appears as "Engeg%C3%83%C2%A5rdkvartetten" as you can see below.

****  19:10:45.648  CLI Request  v2.2.1.2154  ****
00%3A04%3A20%3A10%3A0a%3A24 playlist add http%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.31%3A31416%2Fplay.flc%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.31%3A52100%2FMusic%2FF32893.wav 4.%20wav-16-44100%20-%20Engeg%C3%A5rdkvartetten%20-%20STRING%20QUARTETS

****  19:10:45.655  CLI Response  v2.2.1.2154  ****
00%3A04%3A20%3A10%3A0a%3A24 playlist add http%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.31%3A31416%2Fplay.flc%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.31%3A52100%2FMusic%2FF32893.wav 4.%20wav-16-44100%20-%20Engeg%C3%83%C2%A5rdkvartetten%20-%20STRING%20QUARTETS

Can anyone please tell me what is going on and how to fix it?

[AndrewFG]

I found the following interesting article.

http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2010/1...s-in-perl.html
http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2010/1...ding.html#more

Can anyone please tell me which of these cited escaping mechanism are actually used by the CLI? A comparison with the CLI response echo seems to indicate "none of the above"...

[AndrewFG]

A comparison with the CLI response echo seems to indicate "none of the above"...

After further testing, I believe that the CLI requests shall NOT be encoded in UTF-8 (as is stated in the documentation) but rather shall be encoded in ANSI in the Active Code Page.

On the other hand, it seems that the CLI responses are indeed properly encoded in UTF-8

Thus the following command request encoded in ANSI on the ACP:

aardvark Engegårdkvartetten

will return the following response which is properly encoded in UTF-8

aardvark Engeg%C3%A5rdkvartetten

That seems at least to work for my Norwegian text; however (not having a Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, etc. computer) I have no way of testing if this applies generally to all languages / code pages.

=> I think this is a bug in the CLI.

[AndrewFG]

=> I think this is a bug in the CLI.

=> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17784