[Ffmpeg-devel] ID3v2

Andreas Öman andreas
Tue Sep 26 10:24:39 CEST 2006


Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:09:29PM +0200, Andreas ?man wrote:
>>> UTF8 should be default
>>>
>> I definitely agree on this. But it rises some more questions which
>> is a bit outside the scope of the id3v2-patch itself.
>>
>> The asf-parser just cuts away the top 8 bits from the 16-bit (UTF-16?)
>> encoded strings. (Which currently works quite well together
>> with the ISO-8859-1 encoding). And i bet there are more places
>> where some more or less random string-conversion happens.
> 
> Then fix it; don't add more of this brokenness just to conform with
> existing brokenness..
> 

Well, that was going to be my next task, thats why raising the
questions and i think i've got an ideas of what people think in
the subject.
I'll give it a try and leave the id3v2-stuff behind until
i have something that works.





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