Re: [Easytag-mailing] easytag kills german "umlaute"

[Jérôme COUDERC <easytag gmail com>]

Hi,

   As Götz says, your locale is probably set to the ISO-8859-1 
character set (or euro) instead of UTF-8 (the default for GTK2).

There is a part in the INSTALL file about this problem (see below). So 
you can try also to define :
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1



  6.1) Problems with file name encoding:
  --------------------------------------
  See 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html
 
  By default, Glib assumes that file names on disk are in UTF-8 
encoding. This
is a valid assumption for file systems which were created relatively 
recently:
most applications use UTF-8 encoding for their strings, and that is also 
what
they use for the file names they create. However, older file systems may 
still
contain file names created in "older" encodings, such as ISO-8859-1. In 
this
case, for compatibility reasons, you may want to instruct Glib to use that
particular encoding for file names rather than UTF-8. You can do this by
specifying the encoding for file names in the G_FILENAME_ENCODING  
environment
variable. For example, if your installation uses ISO-8859-1 for file 
names, you
can put this in your ~/.profile:

   export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1

G_FILENAME_ENCODING.   This environment variable can be set to a 
comma-separated
list of character set names. GLib assumes that filenames are encoded in the
first character set from that list rather than in UTF-8. The special token
"@locale" can be used to specify the character set for the current locale.

G_BROKEN_FILENAMES.  If this environment variable is set, GLib assumes that
filenames are in the locale encoding rather than in UTF-8. 
G_FILENAME_ENCODING
takes priority over G_BROKEN_FILENAMES.
   export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1


Jerome



alex wrote, the 13.09.2005 21:56 :

> Hi 
> easytag kills all my mp3s because it kills the Filenames and directories
> i.e. 
> before easytag
>
> Böhse Onkelz - Könige für einen Tag
> and after
> Böhse Onkelz -  Könige fÌr einen Tag
>
> how can I fix it that easytag doesn't kill this?
>
> sorry for my bad english
>
> Alex
>  

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