Your message dated Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:18:34 +0000
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and subject line Bug#213239: fixed in id3lib3.8.3 3.8.3-21
has caused the Debian Bug report #213239,
regarding id3v2: unicode support is broken and results in id3 tag data loss
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Package: id3v2
Version: 0.1.11-3
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
I have a bunch of unicode letters in tags, I ran the following:
find . -iname "*mp3" -exec id3v2 -C {} \;
All unicode letters got converted into question marks,
all id3 (including id3v1) info is lost.
thank you very much.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.11-cfs-v13 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages id3v2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-0exp6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070105-1 GCC support library
ii libid3-3.8.3c2a 3.8.3-6 Library for manipulating ID3v1 and
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070105-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
id3v2 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: id3lib3.8.3
Source-Version: 3.8.3-21
Done: Martin A. Godisch <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
id3lib3.8.3, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin A. Godisch <[email protected]> (supplier of updated id3lib3.8.3 package)
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:02:08 +0200
Source: id3lib3.8.3
Architecture: source
Version: 3.8.3-21
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin A. Godisch <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Martin A. Godisch <[email protected]>
Closes: 213239
Changes:
id3lib3.8.3 (3.8.3-21) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Add 67-fix-utf8-text-encoding.patch: handle ID3TE_UTF8 as a single-byte
encoding in the text-field read/write dispatch, the single-byte accessors
and the fixed-size Clear() path (using ID3TE_IS_SINGLE_BYTE_ENC as the
header recommends). UTF-8 text frames were routed through the UTF-16
writer, which prepended a spurious byte-order mark and byte-swapped the
data, producing corrupt frames that could not be read back. UTF-8 tags
are now written and read as raw UTF-8 bytes. Closes: #213239.
* Add 68-fix-utf16be-text-encoding.patch: handle ID3TE_UTF16BE as a
double-byte encoding (per the ID3TE_IS_DOUBLE_BYTE_ENC guidance in
globals.h). UTF-16BE text frames were not stored at all; they are now
stored and serialised correctly (big-endian, without a byte-order mark)
and read back into id3lib's host-order representation. UTF-16 (with BOM)
and the single-byte paths are unchanged.
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