mp3-tags, zip-archives, tool to convert filenames to UTF

[Helge Hielscher]

Hello,

a few questions:

1) I have some mp3-Files with ID3-Tag, most of these files use the ISO-8859-1 encoding, but some use a russian encoding. Which programms can display the russian ID3-Tags? I have tried XMMS, but with no success. Is there a way to convert all ID3-Tags to Unicode? How does ogg-Vorbis handle this issue?

2) Now that I have set my locales to de_DE.uft8 I could use a tool that converts filenames (mostly 8859-1, some russian) to unicode? Where can I find/get such a tool?

3) Do .zip Files store the encoding of the filenames somewhere and will unzip convert the encodings to utf8? How about uft8 and the other packers/archivers (tar,ace,rar)? Are there any known problems?

Regards and TIA,
Helge

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