Not sure it this is related, but the UTF conversion from and to my local charset does not work for me either (the --no-utf8-convert option is not involved in this).
$ export LC_ALL=ISO8859-2 $ metaflac --remove-all-tags file.flac $ metaflac --set-tag="TITLE=Žoužlička" file.flac $ metaflac --list --block-number=2 file.flac METADATA block #2 type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT) is last: false length: 59 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526 comments: 1 comment[0]: TITLE=#ou#li#ka $ metaflac --export-tags-to=- file.flac TITLE=#ou#li#ka Here is how I understand this: metaflac understood the characters in --set-tag="TITLE=Žoužlička", because it knows my local charset is ISO8859-2; metaflac converted that string into UTF8 and stored it in the Vorbis comment; that's what --list shows me. But when I --export the tags, metaflac does _not_ convert the UTF8 comment back to my ISO8859-2 charset. Jan _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac