Set the GST_TAG_ENCODING or GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING or GST_ID3V1_TAG_ENCODING environment variable to the charset you want to force.
(This is a problem that can't really be solved satisfactorily otherwise with ID3v1). You might need to remove your ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml and make rhythmbox re-import those files for this to work (you might lose your meta information so far, do at your own risk). -- rhythmbox displays mp3 tags in non utf8 locales as latin-1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/44876 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
