[vorbis] Problems with German umlauts and vorbiscomment

Magnus von Koeller magnus at vonkoeller.de
Thu Sep 20 10:54:21 PDT 2001



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On Thursday 20 September 2001 18:11, you wrote:
> > "ö", for example, becomes "ö", which is QUITE annoying. In xmms, the
> > tags are displayed correctly, though. I'm using the newest libraries and
> > stuff from the Mandrake Cooker (it tells me it's RC2).
>
> This is probably a UTF-8 issue.  oggenc uses iconv to do the UTF-8
> conversions for tags, and vorbiscomment does not.  ogginfo also does not
> handle UTF-8 correctly, but I'm going to fix that tomorrow.
>
> Are you displaying the comments with vorbiscomment?

Indeed, if I substitute the oggenc-added umlauts with my own, normal ones, it 
works. And I'm using vorbiscomment in my script and for debugging and xmms in 
all other cases.

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