[UTF-8] Greetings

Noah Levitt nlevitt@columbia.edu
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:38:20 -0500


On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at  0:16:37 +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> 
> Here my first contribution: I have filed a Debian bug (number pending)
> against id3v2 package. It seems, that every single MP3 tagger for
> Linux doesn't have the "encoding flags" feature implemented, which
> produces pseudo-utf-8-encoded id3v2 tags, which have UTF-8 strings
> marked as latin1 and thus unreadable everywhere else.

Well done. :)

> 
> My favourite tagger until today is EasyTag
> (http://easytag.sourceforge.net), which unfortunately is gtk+1 and
> thus not UTF-enabled. I have managed to configure the fonts to make it
> display and input everything correctly, but as I have already
> mentioned, it lacks extended support for id3v2 including the encoding
> flags.
> 
> It would be nice if someone could add this information to the wiki (or
> just enable my account there, 'NikolaiProkoschenko').

I've given you access, so please do add this information. Thanks!

Noah