[vorbis] Announce: VCE v0.1.2

[Michael Smith]

At 12:43 PM 2/21/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-2] Jernej Simonèiè wrote:
>
>> ----- Izvorno sporoèilo -----
>> Od: David K. Gasaway <dgasaway at bigvalley.net>
>> Za: <vorbis at xiph.org>
>> Poslano: 16. februar 2001 6:15
>> Zadeva: Re: [vorbis] Announce: VCE v0.1.2
>> 
>> | It might work okay in Winamp if you turn off the bitmap font in the
>> | display options.  Do the same special characters display properly
>> | when placed in an ID3 tag inside an MP3 (with the above option
>> | off)?
>> 
>> I was looking at the playlist (which uses default font) anyway. Special
>> characters in ID3 show correctly there (and in main window, too, if I
>> disable bitmap font). However, it seems, that in_vorbis plugin doesn't
>> process the text, and shows it just like it's written in file (¹ for example
>> becomes Å·).
>> 
>
>I checked it with a mix of English, Hebrew and Russian characters - all in
>the same comment.  VCE handles it correctly (shows it, and the .ogg file
>contains multibyte sequences).
>
>ID3, both v1 and v2, seem to store characters as is (I looked at the .mp3
>file) - assuming default charset => if you move the file to a computer
>with another charset, you lose :-(.  Winamp just shows 8-bit data in the
>charset of the font you use in the playlist/main window).  This means that
>winamp will never be able to show a mix of russian and hebrew (or anything
>else that doesn't fit into one 8-bit codepage).
>
>The in-vorbis.dll plugin does nothing to the data - it just passes it to
>winamp, which shows the multibyte data as if it was 8-bit data.  It should
>do a down-translation to the default charset probably, otherwise one can't
>use international characters in titles (I'll currently start commenting my
>vorbis files with `HTITLE=...' instead of `TITLE=...' as a workaround, so
>that the plugin won't see it and will show the filename ;-).  BTW, I've
>just found "Added simplistic UTF-8 decoding to playlist loader" in winamp
>3 beta report, so fixing the current plugin can be skipped.

The current plugin converts to UTF8. Warren contributed code to do this, and it was committed yesterday - so it'll be in beta4.

winamp3 shares nothing with winamp2, so fixing the current plugin is still neccesary. I don't know when winamp 3 will support vorbis at all.

Michael

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