David, I'm not sure if this is correct. The icecast documentation says that
it can be changed by a remote client: "*The source clients can also specify
a charset= parameter to the metadata update URL if they so wish.*"
2011/11/16 David Baelde <david.bae...@ens-lyon.org>
> 2011/11/16 Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org>:
> > When you pass a charset=UTF8 parameter to icecast, it tries to convert
> > the given string to its target encoding. Thus for mp3 mountpoints you
> > get a conversion UTF8 -> latin1, which cannot be done with Cyrillic
> > characters, hence the resulting HTML special codes for lack of better
> > alternatives..
>
> I believe that the first sentence should be dropped. Icecast receives
> a string, and converts it (if needed) to its internal encoding. By
> default it is latin1, which is problematic, thus the UTF8 setting.
>
> Apparently, this setting cannot be peformed by the client, the
> protocol doesn't allow it. On the liquidsoap side, the charset option
> only tells liquidsoap how to encode the data, but this information is
> not sent directly to icecast. Am I right, Romain?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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