Generic API useless with Unicode for ID3v2?

[Andreas Klöckner]

On Donnerstag 18 Oktober 2007, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Andreas Klöckner wrote:
> > If we enter the case (*), no encoding is set. Am I mis-reading this?
>
> I oversimplified in my explanation.  The encoding is set right after the
> frame parsed (in ID3v2FrameFactory).  If a default encoding has been set
> it is applied to each text frame directly after it is instantiated.
> This naturally has no effect on the tags in the files until the tag is
> saved again.
>
> In this specific example it is not set again because it was already set
> (if applicable) by the FrameFactory.

Well, then something is broken.

I do this:
  
TagLib::ID3v2::FrameFactory::instance()->setDefaultTextEncoding(TagLib::String::UTF8);

and then dump the textEncoding of each TextIdentificationFrame of an MP3 and I 
get:

TALB
Latin1
TIT2
Latin1
TPE1
Latin1

I'm confused.

Andreas
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