Re: Non-UTF8 ID3 tags.

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 10:52, Robert Hart wrote:
> I've had a go at sorting out some of the problems with non-UTF8 friendly
> ID3 tags.
> 
> This code simply checks to see if a tag contains valid-UTF8, and if it
> doesn't assume it must be in "ISO-8859-1". Obviously for the non-english
> speakers amongst us, they will want to assume something different. I
> plan to make this a preference in future, but for now you can edit the
> code by hand. What I don't think we will be able to do is "auto-detect"
> an enconding. I looked at the ruxmms, and the way it goes about it is
> really ugly.
> 
> I am using glib to do the utf8 checking and conversion, but for the time
> being I just added a GTK dependency to the id3 code, which has the same
> effect.

There is some utf8 conversion code under the lib directory you 
might be able to use.

> The problem I come across, is for this to be useful, I really need to
> blow away my music-catalogue and rebuild it, and that doesn't seem to be
> possible with the zinf in CVS. When is this mdb stuff going to work?


Eeek.. I haven't tried a fresh check out in a while.. I do it now and
see what the problem is.   Are you using the new browser or the standard
one?  


> Rob
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