Re: Fw: cddb utf-8 encoding/Chinese character encoding

Hi Michael,

The *important* point that may have missed is that even in GRIP's GUI, the
artist/album/songs information is displayed in gibberish and the file names,
directory names are gibberish accordingly.

I have tried many
export LANG=zh_CN/TW/HK.*
GRIP's menu does change to the proper language, but the CDDB information
does not change accordingly.

I tried using UTF-8 for all, but it does seem to fix the problem.

I have no idea as to how the CDDB entires are fetched from, but seems like
once the entries are fetch, there is some kind of conversion needed, or a
kind of check locale from the system needed.

When I pop the same disc in WinAmp (in Windows 2000), all the CDDB info
display properly and save accordingly.

/Chin

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ISO-8859-1 is wrong for you. That's "Latin-1", just the plain old
American 7-bit ASCII and a few additional European characters. With
Chinese, you need the modern UTF-8 or one of the old Chinese encodings
(alas I don't know much of that, but "BIG-5" comes to mind).

I also must admit that I have no idea whether the encoding (character
set) is even stored in CDDB entries. So it might be possible that even
if everything is setup alright on your side, the CDDB entries have no
way to tell their character set. Maybe the programs that submitted the
Chinese CDDB entries simply choose one popular encoding and hoped that
other programs use the same encoding.

Maybe someone else can help us out here and tell whether the encoding is
stored along with the CDDB entries?

Not sure if these help:

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_encoding

> > > I tried to login GNOME using other Chinese locales such as simplified,
> > still
> > > no use.
> > > I tried also using Sound-Juicer, but no characters show up properly.

Hmm. What distribution do you use? Maybe you could try switching to an
"Asian-character-sets-aware" distribution like Red Flag or Asianux?
Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I guess that
East-Asia-centric distributions have better support for Chinese
characters.

Regards...
Michael

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