non latin1 id3v2 support

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 06:06:40AM +0100, paul-henri.ferme wrote:

> In reference to Scott's comment below, I understand that non latin1 
> encoding are often found in id3V1, although not supported by standards.
> so it is probably a good idea to support them in prokyon3.

I don't think it's a good idea. Any implementation of such a thing would
be only a hack, which won't work correctly in 100% of cases. Non-latin
tags should be switched to id3v2 - there's just no good mass-tagger under Linux
which would support that

> But what about id3v2?
> Are there lots-of  non-latin1 encoded id3v2 files out there?
> Will this make sense to support them as well?
> How can we expand taglib to support more than Latin1, UTF-16, UTF-8?

Why would you want THAT??? Everything that's not latin1 should be encoded
in UTF-8 or UTF-16, which taglib supports. Which sense does it make to
support legacy encodings? However, You might want to suggest converting
non-latin1 non-unicode encodings to unicode and set the appropriate bits
in the tag.

-- 
Nikolai Prokoschenko 
nikolai at prokoschenko.de / Jabber: pronik at jabber.org