Comment 5 for bug 913453

Steps to reproduce the bug:
- Create a folder that contains an accentuated character
- Place a video in that folder (or any subfolder therein)
- Open SubDownloader and try to download a subtitle for that video file

Example of a few accentuated character:
é í à è

In French, the Download folder is ~/Téléchargements/ and the Videos folder is ~/Vidéos/
A video in any of these default folders will make Subdownloader crash. This is due to SubDownloader not being able to properly handle non-ASCII characters in the path (either folder or video filename).

This bug is not new: bug #306589 (reported on 2008-12-09) supposedly fixed it (status fix committed) but this is still an issue. Not sure that the patch provided is either still present, or even working.

Also, this bug is the reason SubDownloader got removed from Debian. Allessandro, if you fix it I'll backport this fix to 2.0.14 (the version in Debian and in the current Ubuntu repositories) so that it can be included again in the official Debian archive. Hopefully we can do this in time before the new Debian is released...