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Subject:    [amarok] [Bug 311399] ID3 tags with ISO 8859-1 characters wrongly encoded
From:       Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl () huftis ! org>
Date:       2013-02-16 9:38:49
Message-ID: bug-311399-17878-J1SBkEaIJD () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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--- Comment #7 from Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org> ---
Myriam, you have misunderstood. This is not a wishlist; it's a bug. I hoped my
bug report was clear, as I even gave an easy to reproduce test case, but I'll
try to make it even clearer:

Amarok incorrectly writes ID3 tags. Amarok writes all tags as UTF-8 (which is
great), but says that they're encoded as ISO 8859-1 *iff* they potentially
could be represented as ISO 8859-1. In other words, the actual encoding and the
text encoding description byte differ. This is clearly a bug. The solution is
easy: Correctly set the text encoding description byte to 03 when saving the
files.

We do not not insist on using an obsolete encoding. There is no option for this
in Amarok, so I don't understand your accusation. This is *not* a wish about
support for any ISO encoding. I would think it wonderful if Amarok correctly
saved ID3 tags only as UTF-8 (or UTF-16). Unfortunately, it sometimes doesn't.
This is a bug.

Also, this is a clearly regression, since this bug didn't occur in earlier
Amarok version (i.e., Amarok 2.5.x, I believe).

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