<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The spec does support it, but in an off-hand way. Each text frame can store more than one string. You would have to choose an encoding that would support all the characters in question. UTF8 would general suffice, but UTF16 to be sure; it's not like the extra bytes are relevant.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The problem is most libraries do not support this aspect of the spec, nor do players - or other software - display them.<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Anton Stroganov wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Yup. Same idea I suggested on this list back in Jun 07, see the ensuing discussion on<br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/437">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/437</a><br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/442">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2/442</a><br> <br>Not sure what to suggest, other than writing up a spec, releasing some patched code to the id3 library and trying to get people to start using it. Seems like the main spec is pretty much frozen, nobody's developing it, and any significant changes are application-specific using PRIV frames.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Ahmed Sobhi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:humanzz@hotmail.com">humanzz@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 15px;" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Compose message area"> <div><font face="Calibri">Hello,</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">I'm a software developer but I'm not at all experienced with id3 tagging system from a developer's perspective.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">I'm facing a problem as a user and I just wanted to share that problem and propose how I want it to be solved.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">I'm Egyptian so part of my mp3s collection is for Egyptian and Arab artists. The problem is with the songs, albums titles and artists names. I'd like to see them in Arabic.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">I know that this is possible with unicode and for sure that works quite well for me.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">I'm talking about storing the names in multiple languages, like having an artist's name in arabic and english.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">For example, I have an artist called " <b><font color="#000080" size="3">أم كلثوم</font></b></font>" and in English she is called Um Kalthoum.</div> <div><font face="Calibri">I'd like to be able to search in my music library with either names.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">A also believe that each can be used in a proper context</font></div> <ol> <li><font face="Calibri">The original artist's language (in my case arabic) because it's only logical to do so</font> </li><li><font face="Calibri">English as a current universal standard</font></li></ol> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">I think it'd be a great feature for those whose first language is not English.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">So what I'm suggesting is to allow some fields to be stored with different language versions.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">So there will Artist (english): Um Kalthoum and Artist (arabic): <b><font color="#000080">أم كلثوم</font></b></font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">The same can co for album and title and any other fields that can expose such behavior.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">What do you think?</font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">Regards,</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri">Ahmed Sobhi</font></div></div> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>