[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#648904: Kid3 doesn't handle UTF-8 properly with ID3v2 tags despite configuration

[Fabien C.]

Thank you very much for this clarification Urs! 

I would suggest calling this option "Default text encoding" then, 
instead of "Text encoding". This way, nobody could think changing this 
would change the way ID3v2 tags are displayed. 

Fabien 



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[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#648904: Kid3 doesn't handle UTF-8 properly with ID3v2 tags despite configuration

[Urs Fleisch]

The encoding of ID3v2 tags is stored separately in every frame, so you 
cannot just switch one option to change them all. The encoding set in 
Settings, Configure Kid3, Tags tab, ID3v2 section, "Text encoding" is 
the encoding used for newly created frames. Normally, you do not have to 
change this from "ISO-8859-1" because Kid3 will automatically choose the 
correct encoding (UTF-16 for ID3v2.3 and UTF-8 for ID3v2.4) if a frame 
contains non-ASCII characters.


To view and change the encoding of a frame, select it and click the 
"Edit" button. You can set the encoding with the combo box at the top. 
Note that ID3v2.3 does not support UTF-8, so you should use UTF-16. For 
ID3v2.4, UTF-8 is a good choice. You can see in the "Edit" dialog that 
"id3v2" does not write the tags correctly, it always sets the encoding 
to "ISO-8859-1", so Kid3 displays "Bonne journée" correctly. If you 
enter "Bonne journée" in Kid3, it will automatically set the encoding to 
UTF16.





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[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#648904: Kid3 doesn't handle UTF-8 properly with ID3v2 tags despite configuration

[Fabien C.]

Package: kid3
Version: 1.4-1+b1
Severity: normal

Kid3 displays ID3v2 tags with the ISO-8859-1 charset even if it is configured to
use UTF-8 for these tags.

The configuration option can be found this way : Settings, Configure Kid3, Tags
tab, ID3v2 section, "Text encoding" option).

However, the "Text encoding" option for ID3v1 is working ok.

To reproduce :
If you do not have a mp3 with an ID3v2 tag encoded with UTF-8, you can use the
"id3v2" tool (packaged as "id3v2") to make one.

Provided that your console is using with UTF-8, you may add a utf8 comment to an
existing mp3 file like this :
 id3v2 -c "Bonne journée" myaudiofile.mp3

Then, the "é" character will not be displayed correctly with kid3, regardless of
what you charset configured to handle your tags (I have "Bonne journée" 
instead).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kid3 depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime   4:4.4.5-1  runtime components from the offici
ii  libc6 2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libflac++61.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8  1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1   1:4.4.5-8  GCC support library
ii  libid3-3.8.3c2a   3.8.3-13   A library for manipulating ID3v1 a
ii  libkdecore5   4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii  libkio5   4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii  libogg0   1.2.0~dfsg-1   Ogg bitstream library
ii  libqt4-dbus   4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-svg4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-xml4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore44:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++64.4.5-8The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtag1c2a1.6.3-1TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii  libtunepimp5  0.5.3-7.3  MusicBrainz tagging library
ii  libvorbis0a   1.3.1-1The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile31.3.1-1The Vorbis General Audio Compressi

kid3 recommends no packages.

kid3 suggests no packages.

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