ID3 encoding: UTF-8 not properly supported

[gero]

The default ID3 encoding in Grip is UTF-8. I guess it's safe to assume that the most popular MP3 player currently is Amarok. Accents and umlauts in Grip-encoded ID3s with UTF-8 show up garbled in Amarok.

It's not clear whether Grip or Amarok is to blame but as long as this problem persists it doesn't seem like a good idea to make UTF-8 the default. Therefore, I advocate to set the default ID3 encoding in Grip to ISO-8859-1 which seems to do the job.

[Jurgen Depicker (jupsoleil)]

The same for me. Any 'strange' accented letter from french or spanish is wrongly encoded by grip. Setting the encoding to iso-8859-1 does the trick with me to. What's wrong with utf-8 encoding?

[Manujong (manujong)]

the same on a french cd with particular french characters ( é,è,à,ç, ... ) .
For instance, from a song called 'L'été où est-il ?' , grip creates a file named : 'lt_o_estil.mp3' and an ID3 tag : "L'été où est-il". Although UTF8 is chosen in the configuration, it seems that there is a trick there, I confirme.
Hope someone finds the fix.