[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/2] taglib: detect charset when ID3v2 Latin-1 parser finds invalid character

[Francois Cartegnie]

Le 23/10/2020 à 12:46, sojulibra at gmail.com a écrit :
> From: Souju TANAKA <sojulibra at gmail.com>
> 
> Changed TagLib Latin-1 parser to check whether a ISO 8859-1 encoded ID3v2 tag
> is a valid byte sequence. If invalid Latin-1 character is found, try to detect
> charset and convert the tag into UTF-8 to avoid Mojibake.
> 
> Some encoder embeds ID3v2 in unexpected charset, though it is againt the spec.
> TagLib allows to overide TagLib::ID3v2::Latin1StringHandler::parse() to deal
> with this practical situation.

we already provide a dedicated function to fix utf8 encodings

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Francois Cartegnie
VideoLAN - VLC Developer