Bugzilla – Bug 2388
Support for international characters when searchng with remote control
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:25:15 UTC
When searching using the Squeezebox remote control, there is no support for entering international characters, making the search function more or less useless. Add support for international characters depending on language or country, with additional characters as when writing an SMS on a cellular phone. Examples of required additional characters in Sweden: ABCÅÄ MNOÖ
You should be able to search for à using A. I realize that this isn't intuitive, so we'll leave the bug open to fix it by adding those characters to be input explicitly.
Untargetting for post 6.5 assessment.
Dean notes we should really fix this, using a similar scheme as cellphones use to input the international characters.
I suggest this kind of functionality should support an arbitrary set of characters (non-latin included). I presume that there should be some kind of language setting in Slimserver (or even use the same language, as for the Slimserver interface). Then, the search from the remote should work exactly like the mobile phones work today: repetitive pressing on a single bottom (e.g. 2 on SB3 remote) cycles through latin letters first (A,B,C), and through (pre-selected) foreighn language letters next (А, Б, В, Г in case of cyrillic).
Currently it is not possible to search for songs/artists/albums containing international (öäå) or accented (áàé) in Mp3Tunes library from SqueezeNetwork. For instance Mp3Tunes->Search->Artists->"ea" does not include "Sinéad O'Connor" but Mp3Tunes->Search->Artists->"sin" does. I believe that when the music is in a local database both "ea" and "sin" will return "Sinéad O'Connor". Being able to input international characters with the remote would perhaps solve this issue as well.
Looking at bug 13811, it would appear this has now been addressed? can somone confirm this please, then mark the bug as closed
(In reply to comment #6) > Looking at bug 13811, it would appear this has now been addressed? can somone > confirm this please, then mark the bug as closed The problem I reported in Comment 5 (https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2388#c5) is not solved at least not for the Squeezenetwork of today (2009-09-09).
Dean doesn't work here any more :)
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