GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 80037
View As Music can't show local charset.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
View As Music Can't show local charset not utf-8 If mp3 have no id3 tag it , it shows properly. but If mp3 have id3, characters are broken.
Are the id3 tags in utf8?
no. euc-kr. (we have no tool to write and manage with utf8 id3 tag)
I assume we can try to convert from the system locale to utf8, the text view does something like this (Although more sophisticated)
Since there is no encoding tag in the id3 header it is hard to know what encoding to use. Since the newest id3 spec mandated the usage of mp3 I think we decided to fall back on latin-1 if the text didn't validate as utf8.
Although i guess we could try locate_to_utf8() before falling back to latin1.
music view is dead