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) -- Nikolai Prokoschenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/