Generic API useless with Unicode for ID3v2?

[Andreas Klöckner]

On Mittwoch 17 Oktober 2007, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2007/10/17, Vitali Lovich <vlovich at gmail.com>:
> > The better question is why UTF-8 isn't used as the default encoding
> > everywhere.
>
> IIRC the main reason for not using UTF-8 is that there are many old
> programs out there which cannot handle it, since it was introduced with
> ID3v2 2.4 and taglib is actually one of the few libs which can handle
> it correctly.
>
> The interoperability and likeness to ASCII doesn't help ID3v2, each
> frame is tagged with an encoding and when that has the unknown
> enumeration value for UTF-8 (0x03) old implementations done
> prior to 2.4 will just bail out and set the string to <null>.

Maybe I wouldn't blindly default to UTF-8, but if the new string contains 
characters that are not representable in the previous encoding (say Latin1), 
I'd argue that changing to UTF-8 is a good idea.

Andreas
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