Re: [Muine] Problems with UTF-8 on ID3 tags

[Carlos Laviola <carlos laviola org>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Brian Kerrick Nickel wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:16 -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Being from Brazil, I own some albums that have accents either in the
> > song titles, the album's name or the band's name itself.  I usually tag
> > my rips with the accents, but muine seems to have a problem with this,
> > as it can be seen on the following screenshot:
> > 
> > http://laviola.org/muine_utf8_bug.png
> > 
> 
> I think the diagnosis may be the opposite. Muine is functioning fine
> while the tagging software is operating incorrectly. Unless your tags
> are formatted with ID3v2.4 (Most taggers use 2.3), your tags can't be in
> the UTF-8 format. The earlier versions of ID3v2 only supported ISO-8859-
> 1 and UTF-16. Here is probably what happened. You entered your UTF
> characters into your tagging software. Your tagging software then
> (incorrectly) stored the frame with the ISO-8859-1 flag rather than
> converting it to UTF-16 and storing it with the UTF-16 flag. When
> Muine's metadata function loaded, it recognized that there was a ISO-
> 8859-1 frame and converted it to UTF-8 for rendering, thus causing the
> problem. If this is the case, a bug should be filed against the tagging
> software.

It's unlikely, since both id3v2 and grip, the program I originally used
to rip my stuff, use id3lib (http://www.id3lib.org), which is pretty
standards-compliant.  But in case it's really the tagging software's
fault, do you know how I can check for these flags?

Thanks again,
Carlos.