piCorePlayer --- switch $LANG to UTF8

[mattiwbln]

...that's right: there seems to be no UTF8 support in the terminal (sh or bash), neither as output (?? instead of proper unicode character) or input (can't type Umlauts, €, etc.). Also, there is no german keyboardmap in /usr/share/kmap and the kmap extension doesn't seem to be available.

Thinking of switching to piCoreplayer version < 6. Would that help?

Regards
Matti

[paul-]

kmaps.tcz is available on the piCore repo. You should be able to select that in the extension pages.

I've had no problems with unicode characters, but not tested greatly. Are you using a local console, or an ssh client. Are you sure your ssh client is setup properly for unicode display.

[mattiwbln]

Good Morning,

the connection is made via ssh. pCP's ssh config doesn't have either SendEnv or AcceptEnv set in /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_config. So, i'm quite sure it's not the ssh connection messing up the environment on pCP.

For your information: kmap.tcz is not available in the main-, mirror- or official piCore(Player) repository, as far as i can see on the extensions page.

I'm in the process of setting up a 5.0.0 standard version server, to see whether things are different there. Mind you, before i crashed my old server (can't remember whether that was version 3, 4 or 5 ;-) ) UTF8 support worked fine.

Have a good day, stay healthy!
Regards
Matti

[SlowMo]

blank window from getlocale.sh

Hello Matti, Hello Paul,

I am new to squeezebox, just started a few weeks ago with running piCorePlayer on a RasPi 2B, and I am having the same or similar issue: German "Umlaute" symbols causing songs and albums not to show up in the library.
Actually, it is slightly more confusing, because the albums only disappear in the additional libraries that I have added using the "Simple Library Views" plugin. They show up correctly in the regular "album" library.

So, in trying to solve this issue, I attempted to install the German UTF-8 locale using the extension and getlocale.sh. But when I run the script with "sudo getlocale.sh" I get noothing but a black screen and the prompt shows up at the bottom of the terminal window again. Adding the line "export TERM=xterm" as suggested did not help. I am connecting via SSH using PuTTY and getlocale.tcz is in the onboot.lst.

Any ideas from the experts what is happening here and how I could get things working?

Sorry, I am not overly familiar with linux, so bear with me if I made a silly mistake somewhere.

Cheers
SlowMo

[mcblack]

faulty getlocale.sh script

I also did encounter the same problem in piCoreplayer 8.2.0. I solved this with a sollution I found on
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index...html#msg167051 .

In your home directory, create a file called getlocale.sh

vi getlocale.sh

copy following text in it

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/init.d/tc-functionsgetlocae.sh

checkroot

SFILE=/usr/local/share/getlocale/SUPPORTED
# Override terminal, incase ncurses-terminfo is not loaded
export TERM=xterm
export tempfile=`mktemp`
temp2=`mktemp`

echo "#!/bin/sh" > $temp2
echo "dialog --backtitle \"TinyCore\" \\" >> $temp2
echo "   --title \"LOCALE\" \"\[email protected]\" \\" >> $temp2
echo "--separate-output --checklist \"Choose which locales to support:\" 0 42 20 \\" >> $temp2
for i in `cat $SFILE`; do
   echo "$i \" \" off \\" >> $temp2
done

echo "2> $tempfile" >> $temp2
chmod 755 $temp2

$temp2

[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && exit 1

rm $temp2
clear
echo -e "${BLUE}Press enter to start processing."
read gagme

# Data available. Process.

clear

echo -ne "${BLUE}Now processing... ${CYAN}"

mkdir -p /usr/lib/locale

( for i in `cat $tempfile`; do
   dest=${i%%/*}
   charset=${i##*/}
   locale=${dest%%.*}

   nice -n19 localedef -i $locale -c -f $charset $dest
 done
 echo "$dest" > /tmp/examplelocale
) &

rotdash $!

rm $tempfile

echo -ne "\n${BLUE}Locales installed. Creating extension... ${CYAN}"

( tempdir=`mktemp -d`
   cd $tempdir
   mkdir -p usr/lib/locale
   cp -a /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive usr/lib/locale
   cd ..
   chmod 755 $tempdir

   rm -f mylocale.tcz
   mksquashfs $tempdir mylocale.tcz > /dev/null 2>&1

   rm -rf $tempdir
) &

rotdash $!
TCEDIR=`cat /opt/.tce_dir 2>/dev/null`
readlink /etc/sysconfig/tcedir >/dev/null && TCEDIR=`readlink /etc/sysconfig/tcedir`
OPTIONAL=${TCEDIR}/optional

cp /tmp/mylocale.tcz $OPTIONAL
grep -q "^mylocale.tcz" ${TCEDIR}/onboot.lst 2>/dev/null || echo "mylocale.tcz" >> ${TCEDIR}/onboot.lst
echo "glibc_gconv.tcz" > ${OPTIONAL}/mylocale.tcz.dep
md5sum ${OPTIONAL}/mylocale.tcz > ${OPTIONAL}/mylocale.tcz.md5.txt

echo -e "\n\n${GREEN}Done. The extension is at ${OPTIONAL}/mylocale.tcz and in onboot.lst"
echo "Reboot with lang=xyz (for example lang=`cat /tmp/examplelocale`) to start using this."
echo -e "\n\nPress enter to quit.${NORMAL}"
read gagme

rm -f /tmp/examplelocale

make it executable

sudo chmod 755 getlocale.sh

and run as root

sudo ./getlocale.sh

All credits are for Paul_123 and his team.

Herewith I like to thank the whole PCp team for the excelent work done! And yes I made a donation too.

Hello Matti, Hello Paul,

I am new to squeezebox, just started a few weeks ago with running piCorePlayer on a RasPi 2B, and I am having the same or similar issue: German "Umlaute" symbols causing songs and albums not to show up in the library.
Actually, it is slightly more confusing, because the albums only disappear in the additional libraries that I have added using the "Simple Library Views" plugin. They show up correctly in the regular "album" library.

So, in trying to solve this issue, I attempted to install the German UTF-8 locale using the extension and getlocale.sh. But when I run the script with "sudo getlocale.sh" I get noothing but a black screen and the prompt shows up at the bottom of the terminal window again. Adding the line "export TERM=xterm" as suggested did not help. I am connecting via SSH using PuTTY and getlocale.tcz is in the onboot.lst.

Any ideas from the experts what is happening here and how I could get things working?

Sorry, I am not overly familiar with linux, so bear with me if I made a silly mistake somewhere.

Cheers
SlowMo

[Greg Erskine]

Thanks for posting.

Is line 3 ". /etc/init.d/tc-functionsgetlocae.sh" correct?

[mcblack]

Thanks for posting.

Is line 3 ". /etc/init.d/tc-functionsgetlocae.sh" correct?

No errors on this line but showing ". /etc/init.d/tc-functions"

[SlowMo]

Thank you mcblack for posting this solution. Worked perfect for me - just had to exchange line 3 to point to "tc_functions".

Your original code gave me this Error:

./getlocale.sh: .: line 3: can't open '/etc/init.d/tc-functionsgetlocae.sh': No such file or directory

Thanks again - now I can finally play all my albums with German Umlaut-characters :-)

No errors on this line but showing ". /etc/init.d/tc-functions"

[mherger]

Thanks guys! I've been using pCP for years - but only today I looked at the results of a directory listing, as I tweaked sorting in LMS last night. And only today I figured out this wasn't configured on my server .

paul- Greg Erskine - are you going to update/fix the built-in setlocale.sh? This thread would be a good candidate for a docs.picoreplayer.org page.

[Greg Erskine]

Hi Michael,

What needs to be changed in setlocale.sh?

Also, what's an accented character? lol

[mherger]

What needs to be changed in setlocale.sh?

TBH: I don't know. Paul mentioned something about ncurses causing problems? I eventually used the script mcblack posted (https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...27#post1553427).

Also, what's an accented character? lol

Hehe... éèöàä etc. In some locale Handel < Haydn < Händel, in German the order is Handel < Händel < Haydn. Lack of locale support LMS wouldn't get that right for a German user.