[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 499242] New: [patch] workaround the broken tags encoding for mp3 files

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | Ver: HEAD CVS
           Summary: [patch] workaround the broken tags encoding for mp3
                    files
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-good
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: zeng.shixin at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


some idv2 tags of mp3 files are actually in local encoding, in spite that they
are declared to be "iso-8859-1", because of the ignorance of encoding, I think.
These files work fine on windows (I guess it's because windows doesn't convert
the encoding before showing these tags?)

Here's the patch to work around this problem, for tags declared in
"ISO-8859-1", try to use the value specified by the environment variable
"GST_ID3V1_TAG_ENCODING", "GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING" or "GST_TAG_ENCODING" to
convert the strings to 'UTF-8'; if it fails, then try to use local charset, and
finally fallback to 'ISO-8859-1'.


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