[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 149274] [PATCH] gst-plug mad gets id3v2 text tags in wrong encoding

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149274
 GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: 0.8.2





------- Additional Comments From Benjamin Otte  2005-01-26 08:20 -------
Let me clarify my above statement a bit.
I'm all for adding workarounds if the workarounds make more files work.
I'm against workarounds if they
- break correct applications
- work in an unexpected way.

Guessing the tag encoding based on locale setting does both of this.
1) If an application correctly encodes "Die Ärzte" as ISO-8859-1 and you play it
back in Russia, you definitely want to get "Die Ärzte", no matter what locale
you chose. None of the patches I've seen so far can ensure this.
2) If I were an ordinary user I would never see the connection between changing
the language of my desktop and Rhythmbox failing to import my files.

If anyone can think of a patch that never fails for files encoded to spec, we'll
use it instantly, but as long as we need to break the spec, don't do it by default.

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