[vorbis] Win32 All-UTF8 oggenc.exe

Peter Harris peter.harris at hummingbird.com
Mon Jan 14 09:41:22 PST 2002



> > What does the official 'oggenc' do, exactly?  Doesn't it already
> > do UTF-8?  In both Linux and Windows, I've put special
> > characters in my Ogg files, and it seems to me the tags in Ogg
> > files are already in UTF-8.  That's because doing an 'ogginfo'
> > on an ogg file in Linux shows weird characters, which are
> > displayed correctly if I change the character set to ISO-8859-1
> > (pipe output to 'recode u8...lat1').
>
> ogginfo should convert from UTF-8 to your locale's charset automatically.
> (Not *does*, just should.)

ogginfo RC3 does convert comments from UTF-8 to your locale's charset. Are
you sure you're using RC3 tools?

(Older versions did not convert. This was considered a bug at the time.)

Peter Harris

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