🐞 `VSTPlugin.name` encoded in UTF8
smolio opened this issue · comments
Describe the issue
This decoding error popped up while iterating through the channels of a project file for all instrument plugin names
Exception has occurred: UnicodeDecodeError
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)
File "D:\Users\Beyonca\CodingProjects\Python\FLP-Analyzer\test_file.py", line 15, in <module>
plg = channel.plugin.name #Error occurs here
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)
The VST name that appears to be causing the error has a squared 2 in its name (don't ask me why)
I recreated a new project file isolating it to only this plugin to confirm.
What version of PyFLP are you using?
2.1.0
What code caused this issue?
import pyflp
import os
#Getting relative file path
abs_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
rel_path = "proj_files/nonASCIIcharacters_in_VST.flp"
proj_file_path = os.path.join(abs_path, rel_path)
#Load the flp project file
proj = pyflp.parse(proj_file_path)
#Get the name of each plugin in proj file
for channel in iter(proj.channels.instruments):
plg = channel.plugin.name #Error occurs here
print(plg)Screenshots, Additional info
The error screenshot
The flp project
nonASCIIcharacters_in_VST.zip
Code of Conduct
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This is a discovery. Till now, I believed FL didn't allow non-ASCII characters as part of the plugin's factory name as the VST2 (and till some time VST3) didn't allow them (technically). The encoded string (in CP-1252) is
shortcircuit²
which in UTF8 becomes
shortcircuit²
A fix will be out soon.