Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: open-discussion Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: Dirk Dittert RE: ID3V2 tags and i18n [ reply ]   2009-03-04 20:19 That is correct. ID3v2 is encoded in UTF-16. Beginning with v.2.4 it may also be encoded with UTF-8. I have submitted a patch to Guillaume that will properly decode some of the fields but haven't heard anything back from him yet. By: Jochen Hayek RE: ID3V2 tags and i18n [ reply ]   2008-02-06 21:49 Thanks for your advise!!! Finally this little conversion did the job: node.text.unpack('U*').pack('c*') I could not believe it myself. J. By: Georg Fritzsche RE: ID3V2 tags and i18n [ reply ]   2008-02-05 19:03 take a look at id3.org... for example the informal standard says per default ISO-8859-1 is used; anything else only if defined: http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-1a37d4a15deafc294208ccfde950f77e47000bca if you look here: http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-05145d86196104464db40d63035e402ee3c504e7 you see the text information frames include a text encoding definition. now whats left, apart from the standard, is of course the question what other applications can handle and expect... you have to look for that yourself. hth, Georg By: Jochen Hayek ID3V2 tags and i18n [ reply ]   2008-02-05 10:54 I experienced problems, when I tried to create tags containing strings with german special characters. I did a little research, and I became quite sure, that software dealing with ID3V2 should consider the values to be UTF-16 encoded and I think, that this software does that especially, but I got the impression, that the Windows Explorer, KDE amarok, iTunes, ... don't. Any ideas? I feel a little lost ;-)