Re: Can't write Unicode tags

[Bob Bib <bobbib ukr net>]

On 17/01/16 21:41, David King wrote:
> > 2) can you please explain what effect do startup codepage guesses have?
> >
> > E. g. (from my previous message):
> > ===
> > 01:21:20 System locale is ‘en_GB.UTF-8’, using ‘ISO-8859-1’
> > ===
> > 02:34:56 System locale is ‘uk_UA.UTF-8’, using ‘KOI8-U’
> > ===
>
> Those are used as fallback encodings for converting to and from UTF-8
> (the encoding used for display in the UI), if conversion fails, such as
> when old filenames exist on a system which predominantly uses UTF-8
> filenames.
>
> There has been a large amount of refactoring around encoding handling in
> EasyTAG recently, so the detection of fallback locales should now work
> more consistently. Also, filename on handling on Windows should work
> more reliably. The changes will be in an upcoming 2.4.1 release.

Thanks for info.

Just a feedback: my favorite character encoding related option is 
"Non-standard encoding for reading ID3 tags" (at the "ID3 Tags" tab).

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Best wishes,
Bob