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Fix encoding issues on Windows
Hydrogen fails to open songs with non-ASCII characters in file name or path on Windows.
When starting Hydrogen by double-clicking a song file or when using the -s
or -p
command line options the path of the particular file is handed to Hydrogen using the system's encoding. If the encoding is e.g. windows-2151
and the file name or path contains e.g. Cyrillic or Japanese characters, all non-Latin-1 characters are lost and Hydrogen has no way to determine the correct path of the song and won't be able to open it.
You have to enforce UTF-8 encoding on your system. (Which is most probably a very good idea anyway since you are using non-ASCII filesnames).
Open Preferences and enter Time & Language
settings
Select Language
Select Administrative language settings
Select Change system locale...
Activate Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support