store text using UTF-8

[Brian Kerrick Nickel]

I think you could create your own frame class, "EncodedTextFrame" or
something, which can handle these specially encoded text frames, then create
a new frame factory class which processes text frames through your new frame
class rather than taglib's. It's probably not the easiest thing to do, but
it would probably work. (I've never actually tried it myself and I'm just
going off my understanding of the library.)

- Brian

On 6/17/06, moowei <emailmoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does
> TagLib::ID3v2::FrameFactory::instance()->setDefaultTextEncoding(TagLib::String::UTF8)
> have effect on reading (parsing) an existing file?
>
> The reason is, there are many id3tag text frames that are not written
> in standard encoding specified in the id3 manual. For instances: Big5,
> GB3212, Shift_JIS, EUC-KR... are used to encode texts. Thus, the
> encoding byte in Text Identification Frame really doesn't help TagLib
> during parsing. The encoding byte maybe set to $00, $01, or some other
> number. None of them are correct because they are neither Latin1 nor
> Unicode.
>
> If I were correct, TagLib converts these "text" into UTF-16BE at the
> "very" beginning of constructing the frame object. And these
> non-standard text doesn't get parsed correctly. I understand TagLib
> shouldn't need to consider these non-standard case, but:
>
> Is there an way to access the "raw" text data (before converted into
> UTF16) using TagLib?
>
> What I am trying to do is converting these non-standard encoded text
> into Unicode through iconv, but I would need to access the raw text in
> the first place.
>
> Regards,
>
> Moo
>
>
> On 6/16/06, Scott Wheeler <wheeler at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 June 2006 21:09, moowei wrote:
> >
> > > I seemed to be complicating the issue. Are there examples regarding
> > > character encoding?
> >
> > You can set the default using:
> >
> >
> TagLib::ID3v2::FrameFactory::instance()->setDefaultTextEncoding(TagLib::String::UTF8);
> >
> > -Scott
> >
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