Character Encoding

[Mark Smith]

Mark, thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it. I'm trying to  
avoid having to make users of id3lib use 'set the unicodeText of fld  
"Title" to id3libgetTitle()" rather than just 'put id3libGetTitle()  
into fld "title"'
.
In the case of m4a tags, since it seems like they're simply UTF8, it  
seems like it should be ok to simply uniencode and unidecode to  
whatever the default encoding is on a users system... ID3 tags, on  
the other hand, have the possibility of using UTF16, which may well  
have to be dealt with differently.

Currently, id3lib is only decoding m4a tags, while it's simply  
returning whatever chars it finds in ID3 tags. Maybe I should make  
these things settable by the user of the lib.

Best,

Mark

On 29 Apr 2006, at 15:31, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The language of the system, Dutch, German, or English, is not a  
> problem. You'd have problems if you try to decode and display tags  
> that are actually written in unicode and cannot be displayed with  
> normal ascii characters. I'd try to display the tags as unicode  
> text --there is a reason why they are encoded like that. Write me  
> off-list if you need help with unicode in Rev.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark
>
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> Op 29-apr-2006, om 15:31 heeft Mark Smith het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Mark and Thierry, thanks.
>>
>> What seems to work , where iTunesStr is what I extract from the  
>> m4aTag:
>>
>> put unidecode(uniencode(iTunesStr,"UTF8")) into decodedStr
>>
>> This works on my (english) system, but are there gotchas that  
>> would apply when using this, for instance, on a french or german  
>> system?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mark
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