(just got back from a week without email access)

Glad you got this working! For 2.0, the unicode handling of filenames has been 
reworked, so it should be fixed there.

Thanks for the feedback!

Peter

> Ok problem solved I think *cross fingers*!
> 
> A combination of careless flashcard formulation and a bug in mnemosyne
> error handling.
> 
> It seems that the original problem was just that in the path to the
> sound file, I had written a capital A character as a cyrillic capital
> A which looks exactly the same but clearly has a different encoding.
> The problem was just that mnemosyne couldn't find the file. Normally,
> when an audio file is in the answer section and mnemosyne can't find
> the file, it just hangs for a few seconds and then displays the answer
> as normal. However when the unfound file is in the question section,
> it seems that it just can't display the flashcard at all. What was
> happening I think with the unresponsiveness was that when the next
> question was with a file that couldn't be found, mnemosyne recognised
> the grading input of the previous file, moved on to the new file but
> then couldn't play it and hung. Initially at least it seemed it would
> automatically move on after a while to the next card, or maybe I had
> without realising it pressed the space bar and a grading button and
> actually answered and graded the "unplayable" card without seeing it!
> Because I added a large amount of flashcards at one time and all the
> rest were playing fine I didn't realise that I wasn't seeing that
> particular group of flashcards or that was anything special about
> their content.
> 
> I guess this isn't going to be a common problem, but maybe an error
> alert when a audio file can't be found would be the best way to handle
> this. The card should definitely be displayed though.
> 
> Presumably this audio file not found problem is serious enough to
> prevent the mnemosyne window from appearing at all when I started it
> up and a question from the unplayable bunch was first on the list to
> be reviewed. Not sure why starting it up from the terminal meant that
> it couldn't find the proper database, it seemed to be looking in the
> wrong place, but on second thoughts that is probably nothing to do
> with the original problem.
> 
> Apologies for cluttering up inboxes.
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Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology 
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be
email: [email protected]
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