Help with extended characters in tags
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:05 am
This does not seem to be a guayadeque problem (I'm almost sure it's not in fact) but I hope you won't mind me asking for some advice related to tagging and extended characters.
Currently when I add an album from CD to my collection I
1. rip it with abcde
2. use id3v2 inside a personalised script to tag the tracks with the artist and song names
3. import into guayadeque
If the song titles contain accents such as é à ç then during ripping I see the accents correctly. I also see them correctly in the terminal output from id3v2 as it tags them but when I look at them in guayadeque the accents are all messed up. I've seen the same thing happen in Amarok before so this is why I think g-que is not at fault. Still, I can't understand at what stage the character encoding is going wrong. Maybe abcde or id3v2 or both don't support unicode and g-que does, but if that were the case, g-que should still display ISO-8859-I characters correctly, so I'm a bit confused.
Currently when I add an album from CD to my collection I
1. rip it with abcde
2. use id3v2 inside a personalised script to tag the tracks with the artist and song names
3. import into guayadeque
If the song titles contain accents such as é à ç then during ripping I see the accents correctly. I also see them correctly in the terminal output from id3v2 as it tags them but when I look at them in guayadeque the accents are all messed up. I've seen the same thing happen in Amarok before so this is why I think g-que is not at fault. Still, I can't understand at what stage the character encoding is going wrong. Maybe abcde or id3v2 or both don't support unicode and g-que does, but if that were the case, g-que should still display ISO-8859-I characters correctly, so I'm a bit confused.