[icecast] Ices2; Metadata and special chars - SOLVED

[Thomas Weber]

I just had contact with an ices-developer about this issue.

This is not a bug in ices, it is a documentation-bug. What the documentation
not says is, that the metadata should be sent in UTF-8 encoding. Simply
change from Ascii to UTF-8 and ALL esoteric characters will be sent, i've
just tested this.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MacSym" <macsym69 at yahoo.fr>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: RE: [icecast] Ices2; Metadata and special chars

<p>I have the same problem with status.xsl. Special characters such as "é" are
truncated.

<p><p>Is there any solution?

Cheers,

<p><p>MAX

<p><p>-----Original Message-----
From: owner-icecast at xiph.org [mailto:owner-icecast at xiph.org] On Behalf Of
Ross Levis
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:58 AM
To: icecast at xiph.org
Subject: Re: [icecast] Ices2; Metadata and special chars

<p><p>I reported this several months ago.  I was using Oddcast to send and Winamp

to listen.  Winamp showed the title truncated at any extended character.

>From memory, status.xsl didn't show the title correctly either.

<p><p>Regards,

Ross Levis.

<p><p>----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at xiph.org>

To: <icecast at xiph.org>

Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:27 PM

Subject: Re: [icecast] Ices2; Metadata and special chars

<p><p><p><p>> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 14:18, Thomas Weber wrote:

> > Hi there!

> >

> > I am currently developing a broadcast solution with ices2 (feeded over

> > pipe, stdin). I use a metadata-file and signals to update the streams

> > metadata. The problem is, names of songs and artists are cut off at

pecial

> > chars like & or at a german umlaut.

> >

> > For example:

> > artist=Test

> > title=foo & bar

> > is sent to the clients as "Test - foo ".

> >

> > Do i have to use some kind of escape-char or other special things or is

> > this just a bug? Btw, I am using IceS 2.0-Beta4.

> >

>

> You don't need any escape characters. This might be a bug. However, it's a

> pretty unlikely sort of bug - I think it more likely that it's just a

client

> bug. What client(s) have you tried this with?

>

> Mike

>

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