[ID3 Dev] Unicode

[Jud White]

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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