[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 451707] [tag] UTF-8 in ID3v1 tag not correctly decoded

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Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         AssignedTo|gstreamer-                  |t.i.m at zen.co.uk
                   |bugs at lists.sourceforge.net  |
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |ASSIGNED
          Component|don't know                  |gst-plugins-base
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|windows-1250 id3 tag not    |[tag] UTF-8 in ID3v1 tag not
                   |correctly decoded           |correctly decoded
            Version|0.10.x                      |HEAD CVS




------- Comment #1 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-06-27 20:13 UTC -------
Actually, the encoding used in this tag is not WINDOWS-1250, but UTF-8.
However, we fail to detect the UTF-8 correctly because we run g_utf8_validate()
on the entire size allocated for the string within the ID3v1 tag, which
includes zero string terminators in this case, which in turn are not valid
UTF-8, hence g_utf8_validate() fails and the code will fall back to decoding
the string using the current locale. In short, we're displaying garbage
_because_ we're interpreting this string as WINDOWS-1250 :)


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