On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:01:56PM +0100, Helge Hielscher wrote:

> 1) I have some mp3-Files with ID3-Tag, most of these files use the 
> ISO-8859-1 encoding, but some use a russian encoding. Which programms 
> can display the russian ID3-Tags? I have tried XMMS, but with no 
> success. Is there a way to convert all ID3-Tags to Unicode? How does 
> ogg-Vorbis handle this issue?

First, convert your tags to unicode. For that you might wish to use a
"real" id3-tool, like mp3info or id3v2.  You'll have to use iconv and
scripting to convert the tags. Maybe there is a special tool out there but
I doubt it. After that, any application, which is correctly configured for
UTF-8 should show the tags correctly.

> 2) Now that I have set my locales to de_DE.uft8 I could use a tool that 
> converts filenames (mostly 8859-1, some russian) to unicode? Where can I 
> find/get such a tool?

See above - the same way. 
> 
> 3) Do .zip Files store the encoding of the filenames somewhere and will 
> unzip convert the encodings to utf8? How about uft8 and the other 
> packers/archivers (tar,ace,rar)? Are there any known problems?

I'm using UTF-8 as my default encoding and I have not encountered any
serious problems so far (midnight commander is a counter-example)

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