AmarokGaim plugin

James Lockie bjlockie at lockie.ca
Sun Jan 28 04:21:49 UTC 2007


Hans Ecke wrote:
>> The real reason that makers have so much inertia is that implementing modern 
>> Unicode support is difficult, and tag library authors don't want to bother.    
>>     
>
> Oh, tell me about it. I have to deal with unicode encodings too (at my 
> dayjob) and its a major pain in the behind. Of course, the alternatives 
> are even worse. If people ask me about it, I always tell them to try and 
> stick with ASCII (characters < 128) if at all possible...

What character set is "Björk"?
I am trying to fix the AmarokGaim plugin which only works on utf8 strings.
Some of my songs have tags with non-utf8 characters and the plugin 
errors on them.





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