Unicode Question

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Mark,

May I suggest that you translate all strings into and deliver all  
strings as ut8? This would avoid any confusion on the user's side.

Best,

Mark

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Op 4-feb-2007, om 18:22 heeft Mark Smith het volgende geschreven:

> That's the point - I don't want the user to have to guess. The  
> library 'knows', because the encoding information is in the id3 tag  
> it's just read, what I'm wondering about is simplest wasy to let  
> the user of the library know.
>
> So if the 'client' app asks the library for the title of a file,  
> the library needs to let the client know that it's "Abbey Road", as  
> unicode or plain text, depending on how the original tag was  
> encoded, so the client can display it properly.
>
> I guess what I'm asking is what most developers would prefer to be  
> returned when using the library.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 4 Feb 2007, at 17:03, David Bovill wrote:
>
>> I am not really sure - can you put it into a field and if it  
>> differs from
>> the original "text" value assume it is unicode, or maybe regEx  
>> looking for
>> some chars outside of the ascii range?