Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] utf8 in net-rhythmbox-0.4.7.1

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

lör 2003-04-26 klockan 18.18 skrev Alexander Kirillov:
> I'll try that - even though I am puzzled: how on Earth is it possible to
> convert, say, Russian characters to iso8859-1? iso8859-1 doesn't cover
> them. Of course, you can always write a Unicode character as a sequence
> of one-byte symbols  - which is exactly what utf8 does. But anyway, I'll
> try.

Ehh... you're right, my Russian music is in Ogg which uses UTF8.
However, I do use this trick for Icelandic and other stuff within the
8859-1 charset.

> 
> BTW: it is not true that id3 tags are supposed to be iso8859-1 encoded.
> According to  http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.html
> id3v2 tags can contain Unicode text - but in 16-bit` encoding (utf16)
> rather than utf8. Maybe Is hould experiment  with asking easytag to
> encode the tags in utf16 encoding...

Right.. never tried this.. please lemme know if it works. 

Cheers

> 
> Best,
> Sasha 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 18:00, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > Since I listen to music in a lot of Russian, Latvian, Icelandic and
> > other obscure languages I researched this a while ago myself and it this
> > is a solution:
> > ID3 tags are expected to contain ISO-8859-1 symbols, so start easytag
> > like this:
> > LANG=C easytag&
> > then tag your files with special chars, they will be saved as iso88591.
> > RB will convert the iso88591 it finds in the tags to utf8 and display it
> > correctly.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Jorn
> > 
> > PS I've been hacking a bit at rb again, I have a holiday now and I am
> > planning to spend at least one or two days on it.
> > 
> > fre 2003-04-25 klockan 23.33 skrev Alexander Kirillov:
> > > Hi all:
> > > can someone tell me if it is a bug I should report or a configuration
> > > error on my part?
> > > 
> > > I have a lot of mp3 files with tags (Author/Title/...) with non-latin
> > > symbols: all tags are in utf8 format (and I also use locale en_US.utf8).
> > > Easytag and  xmms (after some effort) have no problem with it. However,
> > > when I used net-rhythmbox 0.4.7.1 (built myself on Mandrake 9.1), all
> > > non-latin  symbols are unreadable: all tags are shown as if they were in
> > > iso8859-1 encoding, so any two-byte utf8 char is shown as 2 symbols
> > > (and, of course, completely unreadable - anyone wants a screenshot?)
> > > 
> > > Any tips?
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > Sasha
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   
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