flac/mp3 tagging Latin characters

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sun Dec 19 05:26:42 UTC 2004


On 12/18/2004 11:10:26 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 2:25 pm, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > Latin Songs that I've ripped in Windows have their special
> characters  
> > display fine in Linux.
> >
> > But when I rip/encode in Linux, that's not so.
> 
> Hello again Michael,
> 
> I've been ripping/encoding in Linux for a long time and I never had
> this kind
> of problem. I transfer my mp3's to Windows and vice-vesa and they all
> look
> fine (character-wise).  I know what you are talking (I have lots of
> songs
> which Spanish special characters etc).
> 
> I think you may be having problems with your LANG setting. Please try
> doing it
> all over (rip..encode... on Linux) BUT with "en_US" as the value for
> your
> LANG environment variable. Try it and see if it works.

export LANG=en_US
sh ~/flac2lame.sh worked.

Interestingly enough - the tags were fine in flac and ogg without doing  
that. Is that because vorbis tags are utf-8 aware and mp3 tags are not?

I'm guessing so - thanks for the response!





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