I've got a bug pending for FreeAmp right now where the vorbis metadata plugin does not handle international characters right. The comments that are returned from vorbis_comment_query() are in UTF-8, but FreeAmp is ISO 8859-1. I've been looking for a UTF-8 --> ISO 8859-1 converter that is available for inclusion in a GPL/LGPL program and is reasonably small. There are many full blown packages out there that will do this, but I don't really feel like adding a meg to my source distro for just this small function. This will become an issue for Vorbis before too long -- once I find a function that meets the above criteria we might want to consider including it as part of vorbis in some form. I'd prefer to offer a solution to the people who intend to use vorbis, rather than programs not correctly handling international characters. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. --ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing Robert Kaye -- robert@moon.eorbit.net http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
>I've got a bug pending for FreeAmp right now where the vorbis metadata >plugin does not handle international characters right. The comments that >are returned from vorbis_comment_query() are in UTF-8, but FreeAmp is >ISO 8859-1. I've been looking for a UTF-8 --> ISO 8859-1 converter that >is available for inclusion in a GPL/LGPL program and is reasonably >small. There are many full blown packages out there that will do this, >but I don't really feel like adding a meg to my source distro for just >this small function.I have a small GPL program to do this in Java, but I suspect that won't be much help .... Let me know if you want a copy>This will become an issue for Vorbis before too long -- once I find a >function that meets the above criteria we might want to consider >including it as part of vorbis in some form. I'd prefer to offer a >solution to the people who intend to use vorbis, rather than programs >not correctly handling international characters.I think UTF-8 is the right way to go for internationalisation. Given the (increasing) support out there for UTF-8, and a definate increase in awareness of the problems in not internationalising, shouldn't you be pestering the FreeAmp developers to start supporting UTF-8? Nick --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
rob@emusic.com writes:> I've got a bug pending for FreeAmp right now where the vorbis metadata > plugin does not handle international characters right. The comments that > are returned from vorbis_comment_query() are in UTF-8, but FreeAmp is > ISO 8859-1. I've been looking for a UTF-8 --> ISO 8859-1 converter that > is available for inclusion in a GPL/LGPL program and is reasonably > small. There are many full blown packages out there that will do this, > but I don't really feel like adding a meg to my source distro for just > this small function.Have a look at GNU's "recode". It can output a header file with a conversion table for whatever recoding it supports. Tomas --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.