Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Japanese support

[Andy Howell <AndyHowell austin rr com>]

steven smith wrote:
> Andy Howell wrote:
> This works fine on my system.
> Do you have Japanese fonts installed? 

Yes, from fonts-japanese-0.20061016-6.fc7

> Not all fonts contain the japanese characters.

I don't think its a system level font problem, since I can display the 
file names in Japanese.

>  Also I think the titles you select 
> have to be in UTF-8 to display.

I figured it out. Using the id3v2 utility, I dumped the tags to a file. 
nkf ( network kanji filter ) identifies the coding as shift jis. :(

id3v2 --list File > out
nkf -g out
Shift_JIS

I can use nkf to convert to UTF8 and display to tags to the console:

nkf -oc utf8 out

So now I guess I need to make a little script the converts the encoding 
of the tags. Sigh.

My wife has hundreds of albums. She has been using a *ION USB turntable 
and Audacity to convert them to MP3s. Doesn't look like there is a way 
to tell Audacity what encoding to use.

> You don't say what operating system and which version of 
> Rythmbox you have.

I'm using Rhythmbox 0.10.0 on a Fedora 7 system.