Re: [gmediaserver-devel] question about character encoding in gmediaserver

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Han,

Han wrote:
> Thanks Dmitry for your quick response.
>
> Using id3lib, in the case of ID3Field_GetASCII, I tried to call iconv
> use "GBK" as "from_encoding" instead of ISO8859-1.  And it worked!
>
> based on this, I was thinking, how about add an option to gmediaserver
> so that users can change the from_encoding for ID3v1 tag? will that be
> useful?

Typical set contains dozen of files with different encodings - i.e. I 
have files with 2 kind of Russian encoding, Japanese ones, UTF-8 ones 
and ISO ones on my media server. So this option doesn't help.

I think the best way is to run some program that converts all tags to UTF-8

-Dmitry


> thanks
> Han
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Dmitry Samersoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Han,
> >
> > Try to disable iconv during compilation of gmediaserver and make sure your
> > tag library do or don't do conversion.
> >
> > -Dmitry
> >
> > Han wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am writing a program to use UPnP to connect to gmediaserver and to
> > > browse MP3 songs.
> > >
> > > One problem I have is that, it seems that for MP3 songs with Chinese
> > > song names (MP3 tag) encoded in GB2312 (2 bytes per Chinese
> > > character),  the original song name string is converted into 4 bytes
> > > per character in the browse result.  The new string seems not valid
> > > GB2312, nor valid UTF-8.
> > >
> > > I am wondering if gmediaserver do any such encoding conversion for
> > > song names, or is it libupnp doing such conversion?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > > Han
> > >
> > >
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