Package: id3v2 Version: 0.1.11-3 Severity: normal When I want to set a tag, the text provided in the commandline is written unmodified. This leads to data corruption if the system locale is not latin1 (or ISO 8859-1). My system is set to UTF8 locale, so that the following happens:
$ id3v2 --TIT2 "test" 07\ -\ Parties\ in\ München.mp3 Now let's see what a reliable tool (eyeD3) shows: $ eyeD3 07\ -\ Parties\ in\ München.mp3 [...] ID3 v2.3: title: test artist: Superpunk Now I set the real title of the track, which contains a german umlaut: $ id3v2 --TIT2 "Parties in München" 07\ -\ Parties\ in\ München.mp3 And this is the eyeD3 output: $ eyeD3 --debug 07\ -\ Parties\ in\ München.mp3 [snip] eyeD3 trace> FrameSet: Reading Frame #6 eyeD3 trace> FrameHeader [start byte]: 91 (0x5B) eyeD3 trace> FrameHeader [id]: TIT2 (0x54495432) eyeD3 trace> FrameHeader [data size]: 20 (0x14) eyeD3 trace> FrameHeader [flags]: ta(0) fa(0) ro(0) co(0) en(0) gr(0) un(0) dl(0) eyeD3 trace> FrameSet: Reading 20 (0x14) bytes of data from byte pos 101 (0x65) eyeD3 trace> FrameSet: 20 bytes of data read eyeD3 trace> TextFrame encoding: latin_1 eyeD3 trace> TextFrame text: Parties in München [snip] ID3 v2.3: title: Parties in München artist: Superpunk The UTF8 data from the terminal was put into the ID3 tag, which is wrong in 2 points: 1. the charset is set to latin_1 2. ID3 v2.3 doesn't support UTF8, only UTF16 If the user wants to put correctly encoded data into the tags, he/she has to make sure to convert it to the correct encoding (latin1). He/She seems to be completely lost if the input data contains characters which are not present in the latin_1 charset. Regards, Tino -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc4-00187-gb4348f3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages id3v2 depends on: ii libc6 2.9-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-3 GCC support library ii libid3-3.8.3c2a 3.8.3-7.2 Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime id3v2 recommends no packages. id3v2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
