From 02150b17fdba14e99712dcaa949d0afa913d992a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bobo <bobodraganov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:32:07 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Used UTF-8 encode instead of filtering

---
 syncplay/players/mpc.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/syncplay/players/mpc.py b/syncplay/players/mpc.py
index 73beb1a..d53645a 100755
--- a/syncplay/players/mpc.py
+++ b/syncplay/players/mpc.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 
 import os.path
 import re
-import string
 import time
 import threading
 import _thread
@@ -87,12 +86,12 @@ class MpcHcApi:
             _fields_ = [
                 ('nMsgPos', ctypes.c_int32),
                 ('nDurationMS', ctypes.c_int32),
-                ('strMsg', ctypes.c_wchar * (len(message) + 1))
+                ('strMsg', ctypes.c_wchar * (len(message.encode('utf-8')) + 1))
             ]
         cmessage = __OSDDATASTRUCT()
         cmessage.nMsgPos = MsgPos
         cmessage.nDurationMS = DurationMs
-        cmessage.strMsg = ''.join(filter(lambda x: x in string.printable, message))
+        cmessage.strMsg = message
         self.__listener.SendCommand(self.CMD_OSDSHOWMESSAGE, cmessage)
 
     def sendRawCommand(self, cmd, value):