Re: [Easytag-mailing] UTF issue

[richard lucassen <mailinglists lucassen org>]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:10:22 +0200
Oliver <olivers69 hispeed ch> wrote:

> I have the same symptoms with easytag 2.1.6. I use mp3diag to correct
> the files after using easytag. mp3diag tells me: some tags contain
> characters above 127 encoded in Latin1, which is correct according to
> standard but not widely supported. And it recommends to convert all
> tags to UTF16. But my settings of easytag already show ID3v2.3 with
> Unicode UTF-16!
> 
> So I think the cause of this bug is, that easytag ignores its settings
> for ID3v2.3 and uses always Latin1 (btw: my $LANG is "de_CH.UTF-8")

Well, I found this (I use Debian Testing):

# apt-get install python-mutagen

And then:

$ mid3iconv -d -p 43-Miei-signori-tutto-e-fatto.mp3

This Python script converts (as mp3diags says, thnx!) to utf-8
encoding. The problem has been solved now.

R.

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