Icecast - Aug 2004 - OddCast or IceCast screws up extended characters

I'll purposely attach an HTML encoded message in case some of you are using
7-bit ascii readers.

I have a number of songs which use extended ASCII characters in the arist or
title such as Màire Brennan - I Láthair Dé.  The Current Song in the IceCast
status.xsl replaces every extended character plus 1 or 2 characters after it
with some strange character.  So effectivly shortens the title somewhat but
it's mostly still there.  When listening to the stream with Winamp 2.9x, the
title shows as "M - I L".  I'm not kidding.

Regards,
Ross. 

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On Monday 28 July 2003 10:43, Ross Levis wrote:
> I'll purposely attach an HTML encoded message in case some of you are
using
> 7-bit ascii readers.
>
> I have a number of songs which use extended ASCII characters in the arist
> or title such as Màire Brennan - I Láthair Dé.  The Current Song in the
> IceCast status.xsl replaces every extended character plus 1 or 2 characters
> after it with some strange character.  So effectivly shortens the title
Probably a (minor) icecast bug. We should be sending "Content-Type:
text/html;
charset=UTF-8", and ensuring that we're actually sending UTF-8 (it
looks like
we are sending UTF-8 here, but not setting the content charset correctly).
> somewhat but it's mostly still there.  When listening to the stream
with
> Winamp 2.9x, the title shows as "M - I L".  I'm not kidding.
This could be a winamp bug, or it could an oddcast bug, or (most likely), it 
could be an icecast bug. It's difficult to tell: this bit of winamp's 
metadata protocol is entirely undocumented. What character set is this stuff 
meant to be in?

Mike

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