[ID3 Dev] Unicode

[Mark Smith]

Judd, thanks for taking the trouble to look at this.

This is the content of the TYER frame (excluding the frame header)  
that I'm testing with:

0x01 0xFF 0xFE 0x00 0x31 0x00 0x39 0x00 0x37 0x00 0x35 0x00 0x00

which is what I think it should be...(1975 is the year), but this  
shows up as 16665 in iTunes (I stopped testing other frames that  
resulted in iTunes renaming files and folders).

I'm working on Mac OS X, which may be a factor.

Thanks, again.

Best,

Mark

On 12 Feb 2007, at 02:32, Jud White wrote:

> Just tested this.. if you're writing the BOM reversed (should be  
> 0xFF 0xFE) you'll get oriental characters in iTunes.
>
> Jud White wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> This isn't a UCS-2 vs UTF-16 issue.  The differences in these two  
>> only occur over 0xffff.  Also it's not an issue with BOM since  
>> iTunes can cope without BOM.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce this behavior by writing a text encoding  
>> byte of "Unicode" (0x01) but writing the actual string in UTF-8.   
>> Maybe your implementation is doing something similar?
>>
>> -Jud
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Smith wrote:
>>> I'm getting a bit exasperated with trying to handle Unicode  
>>> correctly. In my library, I'm handling all strings as UTF8  
>>> internally, but since the 2.3 spec (as I've understood it) only  
>>> allows for iso 8559-1 and UCS-2 (for the moment I'm treating  
>>> UCS-2 as if it were UTF-16), I'm writing out as UTF-16, where  
>>> necessary.
>>>
>>> What I'm finding is that if I write out a TALB frame as  
>>> "Erét" (thats E - r - e with acute accent - t, if your mail  
>>> client displays something else) as UTF-16, iTunes and the other  
>>> two tagging apps I've checked out display it in an oriental font.
>>>
>>> So the question is, am I wrong, or are other people just not  
>>> bothering to deal with anything but english?
>>>
>>> Any insights gratefully recieved....
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
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