Generic API useless with Unicode for ID3v2?

[Scott Wheeler]

Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> This doesn't seem to work with lame encoded files [0]. Any tips on that?
> [0] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2007-June/000711.html
>   

That's almost certainly a garbage-in-garbage-out scenario.  Given that 
id3info doesn't support UTF-8, I suspect that lame / your console is 
writing UTF-8 into an ISO-8859-1 field and then id3info is just 
repeating that back to your UTF-8 console.

-Scott