[Icecast] Character encodings in ICY metadata

[Marvin Scholz]

On 2 Dec 2018, at 0:13, Fred Gleason wrote:

> Greetings Icecast masters!
>
>
> Does anyone know what the supported character encoding(s) are for 
> strings in ICY metadata? The closest I’ve been able to get via a 
> Google search is this thread:
>
> 	http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=208096&highlight=handle+unicode+characters%3F 
> <http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=208096&highlight=handle+unicode+characters?>
>
> Which would certainly seem to imply that UTF-8 is off the table. (Or 
> is it just a Winamp limitation?) Is there an actual server-side 
> standard?

Not really, I've seen servers and players do all sorts of encodings.

>
> Any light shed would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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