Re: mp3-tags, zip-archives, tool to convert filenames to UTF

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:01:56PM +0100, Helge Hielscher wrote:
>
> > 1) I have some mp3-Files with ID3-Tag, most of these files use the
> > ISO-8859-1 encoding, but some use a russian encoding. Which programms
> > can display the russian ID3-Tags? I have tried XMMS, but with no
> > success.

  If you have a mix of mp3 files with id3v1 tag in ISO-8859-1
and other mp3 files with id3v1 tag in KOI8-R, the only way to display
both kinds of tags correctly *simultaneously*(in a single xmms
session) is to convert both tags to UTF-8 and run xmms under UTF-8 locale.

BTW, id3v2 tags don't have this problem.


> > Is there a way to convert all ID3-Tags to Unicode? How does
> > ogg-Vorbis handle this issue?
>
> First, convert your tags to unicode. For that you might wish to use a
> "real" id3-tool, like mp3info or id3v2.  You'll have to use iconv and
> scripting to convert the tags. Maybe there is a special tool out there but

  You don't have to use iconv(1) if your scripting language is
Perl 5.8 which comes with powerful Unicode support and encoding
conversion functions.(refer to 'man Encode').

   Jungshik



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