On Friday 17 July 2009, Levy, Chen wrote:
> OK, I found a better way to do it, that also gives a hint to the
> questions below:
>
> cat cddbread.2 | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f hebrew -t utf8
>
> My guess is that the data somehow along the way was encoded as
> windows-cp1255, and then interpreted as latin-1. From there the
> convention to utf8 is trivial.
>
> So the line above simply reverse that process, and I left with the
> question, who should I blame, and where to report the bug?

I am running the exact same line. I think the bug lies somewhere in Windows 
applications that people use to add the cddb data, but I have never looked 
exactly where.

--y

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