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[Josh Coalson]

--- Brent Bowman <bbowman at vistacraft.com> wrote:
>  Anyway, I've been making my own tags with MetaFlac since I didn't
> find 
> any default ones (for Artist, Album, Track Title, etc.)  I've been 
> putting them in Vorbis Comments which seems to be the easiest method
> to 
> manipulate and retrieve the data with other scripts.
> 
> I'm having an issue, however, with non-English CD's which contain 
> characters with accents or other markings.  These seem to show up as
> #'s 
> in the meta information.  This is frustrating my archiving efforts
> since 
> the accuracy of file information is lost.

When you tag with metaflac, it converts the comments from the
local charset to UTF-8 (unless you use the --no-utf8-convert
option).  The problem could either be in the conversion
process while tagging, or the displaying process; there's
not enough info in your initial report to tell.  First I
should ask, where do the #s show up?  In metaflac --list, in
the plugin, in ... ?

Also, if you are familiar with UTF-8 you should be able to
tell if the problem is in the actual tagging like so:

1. create flac file
2. add a vorbis comment like 'test=zzz<funnychar>zzz' making
   sure <funnychar> is not ASCII
3. use hexedit to edit the flac file.  search for zzz and see
   what <funnychar> turned out to be; is it a '#' or the true
   UTF-8 code for <funnychar>?

Josh


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