Character Encoding

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at laposte.net
Sat Apr 29 09:01:36 EDT 2006


This is UTF-8 encoding

using uniEncode and/or uniDecode functions, you should be able to 
translate to extended ascii.

I hope it helps,
Thierry

On 2006, Apr 29, , at 14:39, Mark Smith wrote:

> Does anyone know which character encoding Apple uses to display 
> strings in iTunes?
>
> I'm reading some text info from the m4a tags produced by iTunes, and 
> there seem to be some double-byte characters in there. I have no 
> experience of this, and know nothing, so I'm grasping at straws.
>
> As an example of what I get, the 'Esoterik' (where the 2nd (lower 
> case) e should have an acute accent over it, I'm getting:
>
> Esot <char value  195><char value 169> rik
>
> what it should be, under whatever character set Rev defaults to on Mac 
> OSX, it should be a single char of value 142.
>
> Any help on this would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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