closure... he didn't cc the list so I'm forwarding it:
--- Brent Bowman <bbowman@vistacraft.com> wrote:> From: "Brent Bowman" <bbowman@vistacraft.com>
> Subject: RE: Re: [Flac-users] New to the list
> Date: 16 Oct 2002 11:38:46 -0700
>
>
> Thanks all for your replies. It turns out that this is a false
> alarm and the error is actually in my perl script that runs metaflac.
> It is sending a bad sequenc of characters for each one of those
> special chars. I'll have to look deeper when I get home from
> work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent
>
>
> >--- Original Message ---
> >From: Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com>
> >To: Brent Bowman <bbowman@vistacraft.com>,
> flac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >Date: 10/16/02 5:35:32 AM
> >
>
> >--- Brent Bowman <bbowman@vistacraft.com> wrote:
> >> Anyway, I've been making my own tags with MetaFlac since
> I didn't
> >> find
> >> any default ones (for Artist, Album, Track Title, etc.) I've
> been
> >> putting them in Vorbis Comments which seems to be the easiest
> method
> >> to
> >> manipulate and retrieve the data with other scripts.
> >>
> >> I'm having an issue, however, with non-English CD's which
> contain
> >> characters with accents or other markings. These seem to
> show up as
> >> #'s
> >> in the meta information. This is frustrating my archiving
> efforts
> >> since
> >> the accuracy of file information is lost.
> >
> >When you tag with metaflac, it converts the comments from the
> >local charset to UTF-8 (unless you use the --no-utf8-convert
> >option). The problem could either be in the conversion
> >process while tagging, or the displaying process; there's
> >not enough info in your initial report to tell. First I
> >should ask, where do the #s show up? In metaflac --list, in
> >the plugin, in ... ?
> >
> >Also, if you are familiar with UTF-8 you should be able to
> >tell if the problem is in the actual tagging like so:
> >
> >1. create flac file
> >2. add a vorbis comment like 'test=zzz<funnychar>zzz'
making
> > sure <funnychar> is not ASCII
> >3. use hexedit to edit the flac file. search for zzz and see
> > what <funnychar> turned out to be; is it a '#' or the
true
> > UTF-8 code for <funnychar>?
> >
> >Josh
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