[Icecast-dev] Broken UTF-8 in yp.xml?

[Assen Totin]

Hi all,

I apologize if this subject has been discussed before.

I recently wrote a small add-on for XBMC Media Centre (www.xbmc.org)
which allows the users to listen to Icecast radio stations. My primary
source of information is the yp.xml file.

While the yp.xml file is UTF-8 there seem to be some entries with
broken UTF-8 (which most often looks like multiple-encoded UTF-8, but
with one "wrong" byte which prevents reversing the string back to
regular UTF-8).

As an example, look for the topmost entry in ypxml which has
85.239.108.31 in its listen_url - that should be a radio station Welle
Türingens Rock with the letter "ü" being broken.

To keep the posting short, I have written a short page with
information what I was able to debug so far:
http://bilbo.online.bg/~assen/icecast-addon/unicode.htm

I'll be grateful if anyone could shed some light about such entries in
yp.xml and ideas how to handle them.

Thank you in advance for your attention,

Assen Totin