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

Hi guys,

There is a guy in Hong Kong told me the following procedures:

Basically the song titles and other info are stored as Big-5 in freedb.org.
Once it is fetched from the web, he then use iconv to convert Big5 to UTF-8
and then use jack or tagtool to put the info back.

But would it be possible to integrate this process into Grip??

Thanks

/Chin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chin Tong" <[email protected]>
To: "Michael Mauch" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Grip-users] 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
>
> ============================QUOTE==============
>
> 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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