On Mon, 07 May 2007 15:34:23 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 18:50 +0700, Strong wrote: > > That's how I try to do that: > > > > LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 mplayer *.mp3 > > > > Yet I see "????" instead of the Russian letters. How to fix it? > > > > FC6, utf8 locale. > > You're doing the "LANG=" thing with mplayer *because* the files are > already written using RU.CP1251 ID tags and your system local is UTF8? True. > mplayer has a "-msgcharset" parameter which sounds like it might be > what you want (see the mplayer man file). Though the default is $ mplayer -msgcharset ru_RU.CP1251 * iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to ru_RU.CP1251 unsupported Although I need reverse conversion... > listed to be autodetect. Another possibility is its MPLAYER_CHARSET > environment variable (also in the man file). If they do the trick, > you should be able to customise the mplayer config file to use those > options by default. MPLAYER_CHARSET=ru_RU.CP1251 && mplayer *