[Easytag-mailing] Easytag's UTF8

[<svarog gmail com>]

Hello I have tagged about 27000+ files with easytag so thanks!!
Forever I have been using xmms and beep media player to play my mp3s but now I went to try out amarok!
And amarok won't read my utf8 encoded tags properly.

I tracked this whole thing down a little bit

ID3v2.3 only supports Unicode as UTF-16LE with BOM and UTF-16BE without BOM. UTF-8 is new to ID3v2.4
.

easytag i think uses id3lib which writes id3v2.3 tags, and id3v2.3 tags only support UTF-16LE with BOM (i dont kow what that is) and UTF-16BE with no BOM. UTF-8 only works in id3v2.4.

Therefore amarok which uses taglib, reads my tags broken, because they aren't really unicode, just with unicode stuff i the frames broken.

So would it be really easy to make easytag use taglib, is it just matter of replacing all calls to taglib instead of the other one?? Here is some debugging i was doing


Here I look at a tag written in unicode by easytag wiht id3v2 
#id3v2 -l *01*
id3v2 tag info for Любэ - Песни о Людях - 01 - Там За Туманами.mp3:
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Там За Туманами
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Любэ
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Песни о Людях
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 01
TCON (Content type): x (255)
TLEN (Length): 229000


it looks good

Here same file not changed with eyeD3

eyeD3 *01*

Любэ - Песни о Людях - 01 - Там За 
Туманами.mp3 [ 8.75 MB ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time: 3:49      MPEG1, Layer III        [ 320 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint stereo ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ID3 v2.3:
title: Там Ðа ТÑманами               artist: ÐбÑ
album: ÐеÑни о ÐдÑÑ                year: None
track: 1                genre: x (id None)



and those are the same characters taht show up in amarok and bunch of other players, but not beep-media-player

the beep media player just ignores the headings, can't force ay other music player to do that though :[