Re: [Easytag-mailing] UTF issue

[Oliver <olivers69 hispeed ch>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:43 +0200 richard lucassen wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 22:09:37 -0500 Kevin Day wrote:
> > There is a known bug with id3lib during the write process.
> Thanks, but the patch has already been applied by Debian in 2003 (by
> Jerome Couderc btw) OTOH: it's a UTF8 issue, not UTF16...

I have the same symptoms with easytag 2.1.6. I use mp3diag to correct
the files after using easytag. mp3diag tells me: some tags contain
characters above 127 encoded in Latin1, which is correct according to
standard but not widely supported. And it recommends to convert all tags
to UTF16. But my settings of easytag already show ID3v2.3 with Unicode
UTF-16!

So I think the cause of this bug is, that easytag ignores its settings
for ID3v2.3 and uses always Latin1 (btw: my $LANG is "de_CH.UTF-8")

+++ Oliver