Tino Keitel wrote: > lltag always seems to decode non-ASCII characters as Latin1 characters, even > when the user has set a UTF8 locale: >
I was actually expecting some UTF8 related problems since people requesting ID3v2 used the UTF-8 support. But I wanted to get early feedback about ID3v2 before dealing with all related issues, so I didn't really bother trying to make the UTF-8 support very good. > Track 06: Mu� ja > Track 07: H�nde hoch, Papa > Track 08: Fin de mill�naire > I didn't think about CDDB. Looks like the CDDB site I use returns non-UTF8 encoding. I need to keep that in mind. > Here are the correct filenames: > > 06 - Muß ja.mp3 > 07 - Hände hoch, Papa.mp3 > 08 - Fin de millénaire.mp3 > > The idv2 tag will also get a Latin1 encoding instead of UTF8. Here is the > id3v2 -l output: > > TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Economy Class > TCON (Content type): Rock (17) > TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Mu� ja > I am not sure you can trust id3v2 here. lltag currently does not pass any encoding to MP3::Tag, which means the encoding is set to non-UTF8 by default. So I don't think there's an inconsistency between the encoding that is set and the actual tag string encoding, both are non-UTF8. Then, id3v2 might be displaying lltag's non-UTF-8 tags without translating them into your UTF-8 locale. Anyway, it looks like I should * know that CDDB returns non-UTF-8 * convert its result to UTF-8 if the locale is UTF-8 * use the converted values for both displaying and tagging Then several questions need to be raised: * should I assume that the filename, the tags and the current locale are all the same (I mean all UTF-8 or all non-UTF8)? * if your current locale is UTF8 while the file contains non-UTF8 tags, do I convert them into UTF-8 ? * do we need options to convert filenames from/to UTF8 when reading/renaming and tags from/to UTF8 when reading/tagging? It would mean a lot of new command line options... * what about other filetype? OGG vorbis seems to use UTF8 by default, I should fix lltag then. It might be the same for FLAC. But, I don't know what to do with ID3v1. So yes, I am going to work on all this, but I need to think a lot first :) Brice
