[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 320188] New: [id3tag] support for non-unicode strings in unicode string tags

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           Summary: [id3tag] support for non-unicode strings in unicode
                    string tags
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.9.x
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: all-bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org


Here's a file with an ID3v2 tag where we don't extract the artist/title/album
tags correctly. The tags in question are in Hebrew.

The reason seems to be that those tags are stored as unicode strings (UCS4), but
the 32-bit code points then don't refer to unicode code points but are actually
code points in the ISO-8859-8 (CP1255) character table ....

The artist string is supposed to look like this (I hope this works, is supposed
to be in Hebrew):

       אג'אר - די נמאס לי

This is just so horribly broken and wrong I have no words for it, but allegedly
there are lots of these files around (and winamp allegedly displays it fine too).

What to do? Yet another magic environment variable and then hope someone writes
a retagger to convert all those broken tags into unicode one day?

Cheers
 -Tim

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