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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>UTF-8 handles ALL character sets. That’s the whole idea of Unicode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have encoder users all over the world using UTF-8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Handles all Asian languages with no problem, including Burmese which is a more recent addition to the current Unicode version due to additional complications. Requires Operating Systems with the latest Unicode version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here is an HLS stream with metadata done right:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://db2.indexcom.com/playertest/05_diag/">https://db2.indexcom.com/playertest/05_diag/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note Extensible Metadata Fields have been set up with multiple languages, and they are all sent at once.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In order for this to work properly, the entire metadata path from start to finish is required to be UTF-8 Unicode. Any modern software is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>/greg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>StreamS HiFi Radio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Philipp Schafft<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 03, 2018 00:50<br><b>To:</b> Icecast streaming server user discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Icecast] Character encodings in ICY metadata<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#F2F1F3;border-collapse:collapse' id=tableAMOSTART><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id=tableAMO2><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <u>Available Attachments</u></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="file:///D:\Outlook\Mail\Attachments\Inbox\2018.12.03_00.50.41_signature.asc">signature.asc</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="file:///D:\Outlook\Mail\Attachments\Inbox\2018.12.03_00.50.41_Untitled%20attachment%2000016.txt">Untitled attachment 00016.txt</a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 id=tableAMOEND><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Good morning,<br><br>On Sat, 2018-12-01 at 16:20 -0800, Greg Ogonowski wrote:<br>> UTF-8 is now the universal standard.<br><br>(ICY context:) Expect if you are in Asia. Or in central Europe. Or maybe<br>in Africa. I'm not aware of servers on the poles, maybe they use..., ...<br><br><br>> It supports ALL character sets.<br><br>As long as "ALL" is defined as what English people need plus all emoji<br>in all skin colours but green.<br><br>There are still a lot characters not included even if the set they<br>contain to is in the list.<br><br><br>While UTF-8 is most likely the way you want to go, it is by no means<br>universal.<br><br>The truth is that ICY is just a broken protocol that does not give you<br>any way to define what charset you use. So you need to guess anyway.<br>Some software guesses by detecting special characters in the strings,<br>some by using a randomly chosen fixed charset (yes, just using UTF-8 is<br>randomly chosen).<br><br>ICY streams are also changing charset between updates at will.<br><br>Generally speaking I would strongly recommend to migrate away from it.<br><br>With best regards,<br><br>--<br>Philipp Schafft (CEO/Geschäftsführer)<br>Telephon: +49.3535 490 17 92<br><br>Löwenfelsen UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Registration number:<br>Bickinger Straße 21 HRB 12308 CB<br>04916 Herzberg (Elster) VATIN/USt-ID:<br>Germany DE305133015</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>