amaroK fails to fetch lyrics for songs with cyrillic symbols search string when using ru_RU.UTF8 locale. Once I used amaroK on ru_RU.koi8r system, and nearly all the lyrics could be fetched. ddc@czarkerlaptop ~ $ emerge -pv amarok && emerge --info These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 USE="arts flac gstreamer kde mp3 musicbrainz mysql noamazon opengl visualization vorbis xinerama -debug -postgres -xine -xmms" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.4-r0, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-28 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.citkit.ru/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL="" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts asf avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl curlwrappers dga dio doc dri dvd dvdr encode exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gpm gstreamer iconv icq imagemagick ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ldap libcaca lzw lzw-tiff m17n-lib mad mikmod mime mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql nas nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl spell ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wifi xinerama xml2 xpm xv xvid xvnc elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS
This is probably going to be an upstream problem; can you give a try to amarok-1.4_beta2 (that should be mostly stable.. if you're not using gstreamer backend, that is), that is using a ruby script for lyrics fetching? If that doesn't solve, I'll see to re-route this bug upstream so that they can fix it before final release.
Please try with amarok 1.4_beta3-r2, might have been solved by the new handling. Also, note that the default lyrics provider (lyrc.com.ar iirc) has problems with encoding that can't really be solved. If the problem persists, reopen this bug and report one on KDE bugzilla for upstream.
