ביום רביעי 25 אפריל 2007, 15:09, נכתב על ידי Ehud Karni: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:56:38 +0300, יובל האגר wrote: > > Ehud Karni: נכתב על ידי ,�15:46 ,2007 אפריל �23 ביום שני: > > > You have to re-encode the file name to Hebrew UTF-8 like this: > > > > > > NEWNM=`echo "$NM" | iconv -futf8 -tlatin1 | iconv -fhebrew -tutf8` > > > > Thanks! I've been looking for some time how to do this.. I didn't think > > there could even be a latin1/hebrew in a UTF-8 encoding.. > > > > Anyway, that solves my problem too with file names, but how should I > > handle ID3 tags? > > You can use the id3lib package ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3lib/ ) > to extract the "should be" Hebrew names, try to convert it using something > like the command above, and, if successful, replace the original names. > You can then write a script that will do it to all your songs. >
Exactly! It works flawlessly. > I'm sure you can get this package for any Linux distribution. But also > read this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/id3lib3.8.3/+bug/54136 > Luckily, my distribution (Gentoo) includes this patch by default on the latest id3lib version. Anyway, using easytag v2.0 proved to be painless even in Hebrew and it does a great work retagging, where my ripping program doesn't get it right.. Easytag is so kind, it even checks if id3lib is broken with regards to UTF8 tags and notifies about it. Thanks! --yuval -- yuval ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
