[uptodate dapper] It seems the same (or similar) bug covers many applications (easytag, banshee, rhythmbox, totem...). None of them cannot correctly show non ASCII characters. E.g. in banshee I edit metadata and everything seems ok until I try to play it - than it's again bad. The tag is correctly written, but is not correctly read back (or vice versa). In easytag I have the same problem. Saved id3 tag I can correctly read in e.g. in quotlibet but not in application that saves it!
I think it's serious, because id3lib is widely used and in many countries people wants to use id3 tags with non-ascii characters and they cann't. I have many songs with strange characters and it's very annoying. It's called mojibake - look on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake. E.g.: Antonín Dvořák -> AntonÃn DvoÅák; or Strážca pečatí -> Strážca peÄatÃ. ** Changed in: id3lib3.8.3 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Unicode support is broken in id3lib. https://launchpad.net/bugs/54136 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
