On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:01:56PM +0100, Helge Hielscher wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> If you have a mix of mp3 files with id3v1 tag in ISO-8859-1
> and other mp3 files with id3v1 tag in KOI8-R, the only way to display
> both kinds of tags correctly *simultaneously*(in a single xmms
> session) is to convert both tags to UTF-8 and run xmms under UTF-8 locale.
One problem with this is that most portable mp3 players in the
market can't handle UTF-8 although they support a dozen or more
languages. Consequently, you may have to reconvert id3v1 tags
in your mp3 files if you need to store them in portable
mp3 players. They shpport multiple languages by assuming that
there's a one-to-one correspondence between languages and
encodings. This is plainly wrong, but there's not much they
can do given that id3v1 tag does not have any means of indicating
which encoding is used and for the vast majority of mp3 files
circulated and made on the net the aforementioned one-to-one mapping
is valid.
> BTW, id3v2 tags don't have this problem.
We can just hope that id3v2 will be widely used soon and
a new generations of mp3 portable players will support it.
BTW, a number of PDAs, mobile phones and other devices
might share the problem arising from the misguided assumption that
languages/scripts and encodings are tightly bound to each other(the
same is true of stupid web mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo mail,
etc). Hopefully, more wide use of Linux in those devices and better
UTF-8 support in Linux will change the situation.
Jungshik
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