Package: python-id3lib
Severity: wishlist
Please support UTF8 ID3v2 tags.
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From: Chris Vanden Berghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#266052: jack: doesn't support UTF8 freedb entries
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:37:54 +0200
To: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Thanks! I looked myself a bit already... changing the byte exactly
before every ID3 string from 00 to 03 results in a correct UTF8 ID3v2
tag. This is good news, since this means that everything except for the
setting of the encoding itself works fine...
I could probably fix this quite easily by adding an option to the
python2.3-id3 library for setting the encoding to UTF8 and then calling
this function from jack... this should not cause any problems for other
applications using this library as the default behavior doesn't change.
If you know of another (maintained) library that would of course be a
much better option in the long run...
I'll look into it next week. If you had time to look for an alternative
id3 library or better solution by then, please let me know.
Cheers,
Chris.
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Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Chris Vanden Berghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-26 01:39]:
>
>>Argh, forgot to look at the ID3(v2) tag... the filenames are correct,
>>but the UTF8 characters in the ID3 tag are interpreted as two seperate
>>characters. I guess that the encoding of the ID3 content should also be
>>set to UTF8. (as in http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure.txt)
>
>
> Oh my. Read in python2.3-id3's documentation that Unicode was on the
> TODO list, but I hoped that just passing a UTF-8 string would work.
> It seems both of the Python ID3 modules are unmaintained; I'll try to
> look around to see whether there's another module, but note that it's
> not a top priority on my list since I don't use MP3 myself.
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