Generic API useless with Unicode for ID3v2?

Ismail Dönmez ismail at pardus.org.tr
Wed Oct 17 16:26:43 CEST 2007


Wednesday 17 October 2007 Tarihinde 17:21:14 yazmıştı:
> 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.

Uh oh I see , many Winamp files are like this, looks like I will need a quirk 
to to detect and fix them.

Thanks for the reply.

Regards,
ismail

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