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

Tomas Berndtsson tomas at nocrew.org
Thu Oct 26 00:01:41 PDT 2000



rob at emusic.com writes:

> 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.

Have a look at GNU's "recode". It can output a header file with a
conversion table for whatever recoding it supports.

Tomas

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