[Vorbis] 2nd attempt - Repairing vorbis files

[Ulrich Windl]

On 20 Mar 2007 at 22:31, Michael Smith wrote:

> On 3/20/07, Tomas Valusek <tvalusek at seznam.cz> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just emailed one of my oggs to xiphmont, as I was offered to do so. I
> > am always using command-line ogg encoder with comjunction with Exact
> > Audio Copy CD ripping software. EAC is known for its "ability" to insert
> > ID3s into oggs, but I have scanned all my oggs with ogginfo and no
> > problems were reported. So the only issue are 8bit characters used in
> > ogg comments, which cause problems in some players.
> >
> > Is there a plan for supporting UTF8 in ogg comments?
> 
> Not only is there a plan, it's even in the specification. In fact,
> ONLY UTF-8 has ever been supported in vorbis comments. I know none of
> the players I use have any problems with that.

Let me add that in Linux vorbiscomment and oggenc just seem to copy the byte 
sequence from the command line into the files, whatever the locale settings are. 
Thus only when using UTF-8 locale your comments will be OK. Similar seems to apply 
when mounting your VFAT filesystem in not UTF-8 mode.

Regards,
Ulrich


> 
> Mike
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