Problem with german Umlauts about m4b-tool HOT 6 CLOSED

I tried to merge an audiobook with whitespaces on windows, linux and macos... it worked for me. I think the issue is not because of using whitespaces in directory or filenames.

The error could not get duration for file D:\Drachenigel (Die bla Seiner igel 3)-tmpfiles\1-1-finsihed.m4b seems to occur, when mp4info.exe or other requirements are not installed correctly in %PATH%. Could you try to call

mp4info

from the command line and ensure, that the mp4info.exe is really available in your %Path%?

Expected output would be:

C:\Users\sandreas\Temp>mp4info
usage: mp4info <file-name>

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Thanks for digging into this Problem.
I am sorry i realised that the Problem wasn't the whitespace its the german umlauts like ä ö ü ß.

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Thanks for clearing things up. This indeed is a bug. Reason:

• Only happens on Windows Systems, because PHP uses Win32 API for file access
• Win32 API internally uses Windows-1252 charset for filenames (instead of utf-8)
• mp4v2 expects all params to be utf-8 encoded

Should be fixed within the next release.

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I released a v.0.3 beta - could you check if the issue with the umlauts is solved?

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It works great.
Thanks

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Cool - thank you for your feedback.

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