https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419668
Bug ID: 419668
Summary: Transliteration of ID3v1 tags to ASCII
Product: kid3
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: uflei...@users.sourceforge.net
Reporter: m...@ucw.cz
Target Milestone: ---
Hello!
First of all, I want to thank you for kid3, it's great and it saved hours of my
time. With the following feature, it would be even greater :)
I have a plenty of Czech music with non-ASCII characters in names of songs and
artists. These are represented faithfully in ID3v2 tags. But some music players
I use still understand only ID3v1 and they usually assume a random encoding of
characters with the 7th bit set.
Therefore I would like to have all ID3v1 tags in plain ASCII. However, kid3 (at
least in version 3.7.0 in my Debian Buster) does not offer ASCII in the list of
tag encodings. When I try to approximate ASCII by ISO-8859-1 and ask kid3 to
convert ID3v2 tags to ID3v1, all characters which cannot be expressed in
ISO-8859-1 are replaced by "?", even though the characters are just Latin
letters with funny accents on their top.
What I wish for is adding ASCII to the list of encodings and applying simple
transliteration during charset conversion, similar to the "//TRANSLIT" mode of
iconv.
I will be glad to help implement it, but I would appreciate some directions.
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