UTF-8 tags not working correctly in 2.1.1

[Jeff Mitchell]

Edgar Kalkowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m on Amarok 2.1.1 now and kind of started to enjoy the new version but today after the update to 2.1.1 I tried to add a few new albums to my collection. The tags of those albums were adjusted using EasyTag and stored in ID3v2.4 and ID3v1.x versions both using UTF-8 encoding. This worked fine for albums I added before the update. But for the recent ones every special “real” UTF-8 character just shows up as a question mark (“?”).
> 
> At first I thought that EasyTag did not save the tags correctly but an inspection of the mp3 files with hexdump revealed that the special characters were stored correctly.
> 
> My locale is set to en.GB_UTF-8 and I’ve done various restarts of Amarok and updates of the collection. I also tried to touch the affected files in order to make Amarok scan them again. But nothing so far worked.
> 
> Any ideas what to do or any suggestions on further info I could provide are very welcome! :)
> 
> Edgar

Edgar,

If you can, try building from Git and see if things are fixed for you. I
think your problems should be solved.

I'd recommend backing up your .kde4/share/apps/amarok directory in case
you decide to revert back to 2.1.

--Jeff

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