Try code page 437 if ascii fails. Not sure if this is the code page t…

…he media player expects (could try 850), nor if the code page is encoded somewhere in the file.

kmeldb/MainIndexEntry.py

@@ -68,7 +68,13 @@ def encodedShortdir(self):
         Get the 8.3 directory name for the media file and encode it
         for writing.
         '''
-        return self._mediaFile.shortdir.encode("ascii")
+        try:
+            return self._mediaFile.shortdir.encode("ascii")
+        except Exception:
+            print('Error encoding short directory name {} as ascii - will try cp437'.format(
+                self._mediaFile.shortdir))
+            print ('Consider renaming {}'.format(self._mediaFile.longdir))
+            return self._mediaFile.shortdir.encode("cp437")
 
     @property
     def shortdir(self):
@@ -79,7 +85,13 @@ def shortdir(self):
     def encodedShortfile(self):
         ''''''
         # The 8.3 filename for the media file
-        return self._mediaFile.shortfile.encode("ascii")
+        try:
+            return self._mediaFile.shortfile.encode("ascii")
+        except Exception:
+            print('Error encoding short file name {} as ascii - will try cp437'.format(
+                self._mediaFile.shortfile))
+            print ('Consider renaming {}'.format(self._mediaFile.longfile))
+            return self._mediaFile.shortfile.encode("cp437")
 
     @property
     def shortfile(self):