Although the FreeDB information suppose to be encoded with UTF-8,
virtually all the information about Hebrew music CDs was encoded as
cp1255 (Windows Hebrew Code-Page).
The result, naturally, is a unendurable mess of Gibberish. This makes
the software almost useless for Hebrew music listeners.
IMHO, a good solution would be:
1. Use UTF-8 as a default.
2. Have a button or a link with a test such as "This looks wrong, let me try
and fix this"
3. When said button is pressed, an encoding menu A-La Firefox's "View ->
Encoding" sub menu should appear. Note that the Firefox menu is well organize
(as well as a mess of encodings can be). It also has a dynamic list that
remembers the used encodings, so if I used cp1255 once, it will be trivial to
use it again. A way to organize the dynamic list the change the default
encoding is a nice extra.
4. As a way to fix the current state, have an option to send the
FreeDB/MusicBrainz back the listings but with fixed encoding.
Thanks for reading this.
| Cheers,
} Chen
** Changed in: sound-juicer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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help me deal with incorrect character encodings from freedb.org
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399502
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