[MPlayer-users] Playing an URL with special characters, charset problem

[arthur at life.net.br]

  Hello,

I wrote a small script that uses Google text-to-speech as a plugin to a 
study program called Anki.

I'm using "subprocess.Popen" in python to run Mplayer. It works all 
right with normal characters. But when I use a special character, it won't.

So I made some tests, if I run mplayer in the terminal like this:

  ~/mplayer-checkout-2010-09-09 $ ./mplayer 
"http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=â,ê,î,ô,û"

It will say some weird things that is not right, if I look at the packet 
it sends to google, it shows:
     0x0040:  5aa9 4745 5420 2f74 7261 6e73 6c61 7465  Z.GET./translate
     0x0050:  5f74 7473 3f74 6c3d 6672 2671 3dc3 a22c  _tts?tl=fr&q=..,
     0x0060:  c3aa 2cc3 ae2c c3b4 2cc3 bb20 4854 5450  ..,..,..,...HTTP

but if I use Firefox, and i use the same url, it will play it all right 
and say those letter (in french):
     0x0040:  aaf8 4745 5420 2f74 7261 6e73 6c61 7465  ..GET./translate
     0x0050:  5f74 7473 3f74 6c3d 6672 2671 3d25 4333  _tts?tl=fr&q=%C3
     0x0060:  2541 322c 2543 3325 4141 2c25 4333 2541  %A2,%C3%AA,%C3%A
     0x0070:  452c 2543 3325 4234 2c25 4333 2542 4220  E,%C3%B4,%C3%BB.
     0x0080:  4854 5450 2f31 2e31 0d0a 486f 7374 3a20  HTTP/1.1..Host:.

so, am I doing something wrong? Is there any parameter that I should set 
to read the right charset?

sorry that I don't know too much about charsets.

I'm testing on Linux, and I build the latest mplayer version I could 
find (checkout-2010-09-09)

I appreciate any help

Kind regards,

Arthur Helfstein Fragoso
arthur at life.net.br