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

[Jérôme Couderc <j couderc ifrance com>]

Hi Daniel,

You can activate the checkbox (in tab "Tag setting" in the preference 
window) "Use this character set translation" and set "convert from UTF-8 
to UTF-8).

As id3lib uses only ID3v2.3 specifications (not v2.4 with UTF-8), if you 
 save yours files with the previous option activated (files saved to 
UTF-8), you may encounter problems...
Indeed, in the tag, the field will be written using UTF-8 and the flag 
for this field will be marked as ISO-8859-1...

So make some tests with 1 or 2 files before...

Regards,
Jerome



Daniel wrote, the 21.01.2005 20:32 :
> Hey there, I'm a new easytag (gtk2) user.
> I have the following problem, and I'd like to know if, and if yes then
> how, I can solve it:
> I have a gentoo installation on a partition, and windows+ntfs on another
> partition.
> I copied my mp3 collection from the win partition to the gentoo one.
> The filenames are fine, they're utf8 and they display ok.
> The ID3 tags are messed up. Some are ok, but some have another ID3
> encoding (I think Hebrew), so they're displayed "engrish" on my music
> players/easytag. I'd like to know if I convert all these wrong encoded
> ID3 tags to utf8.
>
> Thanks in advance, Daniel.

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