[vorbis] vorbiscomment causes "Illegal UTF-8 sequence in comment"

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 03:05, Peter Harris wrote:
> Stan Seibert wrote:
> > --raw forces vorbiscomment to assume that whatever you are typing is
> > already in UTF-8.  However, if you are trying to save these three
> > characters, they will need to be converted to UTF-8.  Try repeating
> > your test, but without the --raw option.
>
> Speaking of which, I'm holding off on fixing vorbiscomment to do The
> Right Thing on Win32 (when --raw is not specified) until I get some sort
> of comment on my patch to oggenc.
>
> http://bugs.xiph.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268
>
> Good? Bad? Ugly? Anything would be better than simply being ignored.

Ugly. It pushes character set handling throughout the application in a messy 
way, just in order to deal with broken stuff on windows. It's also enormously 
complex and obviously quite version-specific (an unfortunate fact is that a 
lot of windows users are still using 9x.)

Mike

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