[Vorbis] 2nd attempt - Repairing vorbis files

[Ulrich Windl]

On 21 Mar 2007 at 9:18, Andrew Snare wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:40AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Are you sure that this is true?

I thought so when I had trouble with my files. I was using ISO-8859-1 then, but 
recently I'm using UTF-8, and I don't have problems.

Regards,
ulrich


> 
> My version[1] of vorbiscomment claims that the raw option (-R,
> --raw) is required to do what you say. Otherwise the comments will
> be transcoded to/from the characterset according to the user's
> locale. Obviously if the locale uses utf-8 then this option would
> be redundant and have no effect.
> 
> FWIW, metaflac also has an equivalent option: --no-utf8-convert
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  - Andrew
> [1] Ubuntu Edgy, with vorbiscomment claiming to be 1.1.1.
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