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This isn't a bug, although one could argue it should be. It comes with Java and has been like this "since the beginning of time". They chose the standard encoding for the properties files before UTF-8 was "the de facto standard", and because of backwards compatibility they have never changed it ...

A follow up on my other topic shed light on this

The .conf file is in java property file format and charset (Latin-1), so using the UCN sequence is a way of solving this.

I wonder whether editing the file directly in Latin-1 charset would be another way…

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(By non-standard you mean non-ASCII, because é is perfectly standard to me )

Hello
in my ~/.config/UMS/UMS.conf, I wrote
folders = /srv/video/séries

When I launch UMS, I see this

INFO 18:19:14.794 [main] Checking shared folder: "/srv/video/séries"
WARN 18:19:14.794 [main] "/srv/video/séries" does not exist. Please remove it from your shared folders list on the ...

Another common cause is that you're not editing the config file in use. The location of the "active" configuration file can be found relatively early in the log.


YES!

That was it. I was editing the main UMS.conf file, I somehow missed the info saying I should edit the file in the ~/.config/UMS ...

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Of course, UMS was stopped before editing the UMS.conf

Hello all

I just installed UMS (9.8.2) in /opt/ums/ums , as a service on my headless Debian server, on its own user, ums, whose home directory is /opt/ums.

As I was watching debug.log, I noticed UMS was scanning its user folder, including UMS folders

All my videos are on /srv/video, so I edited ...