[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 351794] [id3demux] try harder to extract wrongly marked strings

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------- Comment #8 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2006-08-22 12:47 UTC -------
> This patch seems to fix it by using xine's technique for strings marked
> 'ISO8859-1'. 
> 
> The question now is whether to apply it. Opinions?

Heh, I'm all for it, I've suggested that months ago when a similar bug came up
and it was you who back then rejected the idea based on the fact that we will
get some correctly encoded strings wrong for sure ;)  (I was just arguing what
I thought was what we agreed on).


The type of strings we'll get wrong are rather unlikely, it's basically a
'special character' (umlaut/accent type) plus a 'special punctuation' in a row.
I don't think we'll find this combination very often in normal tags (where
special quotes for quoted speech etc. aren't used).

The only half-way plausible string I can come up with is something like

  Blablé² or Blablé³

for album titles (I've very rarely seen superscripts being used in place of
'Volume 2' etc.).


I say let's apply it and see if we get any reports about wrongly extracted
strings.


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