[vorbis] changes at pan.zipcon

John Morton jwm at eslnz.co.nz
Tue Aug 5 05:12:48 PDT 2003



On Tuesday 05 August 2003 22:12, you wrote:
>  On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Nathan I. Sharfi wrote:
>  > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, al goldstein wrote:
>  > > Help for Windows and Mac users is essential if ogg is to flourish.
>  > > It's much easier for Linux and Unix users.
>
>  Funny you say that; I've always been unimpressed with the stuff that runs
> on free unixlike OSs due to their spotty Unicode handling and
>  obviously-ID3-limited comment dialog boxes. Peter Pawlowski's (the
>  author of foobar2000 and the Winamp plugin) comment entry
>  forms don't suffer from those limitations. 

Really? I must have a look at those.

> Last I checked, XMMS will blindly let you tag Vorbis files in ISO-8859-1 if 
> your system is set up that way, in violation of the spec.

The source for 1.2.7 that I have here runs tags through convert_from_utf8 and 
convert_to_utf8 functions. Can anyone confirm this particular brain damage?

John
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