[vorbis-dev] UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 converter

[Nick Burch]

>I've got a bug pending for FreeAmp right now where the vorbis metadata
>plugin does not handle international characters right. The comments that
>are returned from vorbis_comment_query() are in UTF-8, but FreeAmp is
>ISO 8859-1. I've been looking for a UTF-8 --> ISO 8859-1 converter that
>is available for inclusion in a GPL/LGPL program and is reasonably
>small. There are many full blown packages out there that will do this,
>but I don't really feel like adding a meg to my source distro for just
>this small function.

I have a small GPL program to do this in Java, but I suspect that won't be much
help .... Let me know if you want a copy

>This will become an issue for Vorbis before too long -- once I find a
>function that meets the above criteria we might want to consider
>including it as part of vorbis in some form. I'd prefer to offer a
>solution to the people who intend to use vorbis, rather than programs
>not correctly handling international characters.

I think UTF-8 is the right way to go for internationalisation. Given the
(increasing) support out there for UTF-8, and a definate increase in awareness
of the problems in not internationalising, shouldn't you be pestering the
FreeAmp developers to start supporting UTF-8?

Nick

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