Re: [Easytag-mailing] Using easytag to convert ID3 tags to utf8.

[Jérôme Couderc <j couderc ifrance com>]

Hi Mikael,

If you are using EasyTAG 1.99.3, you can do it in two times :
1) loading files :
    - Convert character set from: S-JIS to UTF-8

2) then to save the files:
    - Convert character set from: UTF-8 to UTF-8

But note that ID3v2.3 tags doesn't support UTF-8 encoding... so you may
get some problems...

Try it with some files to test.

Regards,
Jerome




Mikael Magnusson wrote, the 08.04.2005 05:04 :
> I had the same problem as
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6398638&forum_id=6485
> . I have some files where the tags are S-JIS encoded, and I want to
> convert them to UTF-8, but I can't get easytag to do it. If i select
> shift-jis in "Convert character set from:" and UTF-8 in "to:", the
> tags are read correctly into the gui, but when i save they get saved
> as S-JIS again so nothing happens. I tried changing a letter to get it
> to really save but it saves as S-JIS.
> What solved the problem was selecting S-JIS in "from:", reading the
> files into the gui, then going _back_ to the preferences and change
> "from:" back to UTF-8 (and keeping "to:" at UTF-8) and then saving the
> files. There really should be a better way of doing this though.
>
> Please keep me cc'd on replies as i'm not on the list.

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