[Vorbis] Tag encoding

Michael Smith msmith
Thu Jul 22 21:14:42 PDT 2004


On Friday 23 July 2004 12:51, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
> I'd like someone to clear up, or point me to some document clearing up,
> the character encoding for tags.
>
> In some of my OGG:s, non-ASCII characters show up like this:
>
> ? -> a
> ? -> "a
> ? -> "o

When you say "show up like", I assume you mean "with program X, they show up
like ...". Is 'X' vorbiscomment?

>
> etc.
>
> While when I set new tags, they later all show up as '#'. What kind of
> encodings are used in these cases. Which is preferred?

Likewise here - are you setting these tags with vorbiscomment?

vorbiscomment is designed to do all this properly, but I think it has a few
bugs. Patches would be welcomed.

Mike



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