[vorbis] Special Characters in artist field

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Nick Webb wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I began to encode my CD collection into the ogg format today, but I ran
> into a little, minor problem.  Certain characters don't work, for
> example "björk" comes out as something like "BjAPrk" 'P' being a
> paragraph symbol.  I'm pretty sure it's an ogg problem as ogginfo outputs:
> ...
> artist=Björk
> ...
> Is there anyway to fix this, or a fix planned in upcoming releases?
>
> Thanks,
> _Nick

It's fine. It's being encoded in UTF-8, so the upper 128 characters of
ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) are two character sequences starting with "Â". Put it
through libiconv or whatnot to fix it.


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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>

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