Possible solution to the Windows AtomicParsley crashes?

[dinkypumpkin]

On 08/10/2011 16:12, Shevek wrote:
>
> I'm also getting this error now (having never seen it before):
>
> INFO: Recorded D:\Users\Cyrus\Downloads\iPlayer\Stuart_Maconies_Freakier_Zone_-_08_10_2011_b015gv6n_default.m4a
>
> Wide character in print at get_iplayer.pl line 3530.
> INFO: Downloaded Thumbnail to
> 'D:\Users\Cyrus\Downloads\iPlayer\Stuart_Maconies_Freakier_Zone_-_08_10_2011_b015gv6n_default.jpg'
> Cannot decode string with wide characters at Encode.pm line 174.

Same problem as Vangelis - the dreaded "curly quote".  I wonder if the 
Beeb has changed how they author the metadata.  These characters can 
derive from "smart quotes" in source text, thanks to MS Word or other 
word processing app.

A short-term workaround until I get a patch together is to comment out 
lines 4286-4288 in get_iplayer{.pl}, which should look like:

# 	while ( my ($key, $val) = each %{$meta} ) {
# 		$meta->{$key} = decode("utf8", $val);
# 	}

The "Wide character" warning will still appear, but tagging should work. 
  I'm embarrassed to admit that I should have removed those lines before 
now.  IIRC, they are a vestigial remnant of my attempts at Perl-only MP4 
tagging.