[Bug 81400] Cannot display file info written in local characters rather than UTF-8

[Scott Wheeler]

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------- Additional Comments From wheeler kde org  2004-05-12 14:50 -------
Well, these patches definitely won't work in a lot of cases.  Specifically ID3v2 does properly support Unicode and this would mangle the output coming back.

Also using the current locale won't work in a lot of cases because then you won't be able to display files that you get from someone outside of your locale, or things will break if you switch from one locale on your system to another (say you upgrade your distro and it's using UTF8 -- all of the sudden you won't be able to read your tags anymore).

The basic problem is that ID3v1 is a bad format -- it doesn't support text encodings other than ISO-8859-1, but that hasn't stopped people from throwing arbitrary data in there.

The only acceptable hack in my opinion is to make this something that's selectable by the user.

Please also see:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78428
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77710