[vlc-devel] Re: german 'umlaute' @ message-window (mp3-tags)

Sigmund Augdal sigmunau at stud.ntnu.no
Thu Aug 5 19:20:17 CEST 2004


Id3 tag info are allways in utf8. Though I don't think the messages window
is that important to get into the right charset. It is only ment for
"advanced" usage anyway.

Sigmund


On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:43:08PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le mercredi 4 Août 2004 23:41, Maik Diessner a écrit :
> > german 'Umlaute' are not properly displayed @ message-window
> > (mp3-tags)
> 
> > messages:
> 
> > main debug: meta information:
> > main debug:   - 'Titel' = 'Jack Move'
> > main debug:   - 'Künstler' = 'Defiant'
> > main debug:   - 'Titel' = 'Jack Move'
> > main debug:   - 'Künstler' = 'Defiant'
> 
> Looks like "ü" is displayed as ISO8859; while it's Unicode.
> 
> [remi at auguste ~]$ echo KÃ??nstler | iconv -f UTF8
> Künstler
> 
> Not sure if there is a portable way to convert, nor if we should assume 
> that ID3 tags are in Unicode.
> 
> -- 
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.simphalempin.com/home/infos/cv.shtml.fr


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