abcde breaks umlauts (national characters) in MP3 tags

Bug #1082660 reported by Matthias Andree
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Bug Description

Command line: abcde -o mp3:'-V1' -j4 -V -a move -d /dev/sr0

When this command retrieves CDDB info that contains national characters (umlauts, accented characters), these are:

- displayed properly in the CDDB edit dialogue (I use vim for my editor)
- propagated properly to .mp3 file names
- BROKEN in the MP3 tags (such as Album, Title, ...), and appear as two unrelated characters.

It looks as though an extraneous conversion step from ISO8859 to UTF-8 were taking place that should not take place.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: abcde 2.4.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 24 14:36:09 2012
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abcde
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Matthias Andree (matthias-andree) wrote :
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Matthias Andree (matthias-andree) wrote :

chances are this is fixed in the upstream 2.5.4 release:

http://code.google.com/p/abcde/
...

the "changelog" file from the 2.5.4 tarball:

abcde 2.5.4

  * Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
    for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
  * Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
    for the patch. Closes issue 50.
  * Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
    tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)

 -- Steve McIntyre <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:11 +0100

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Matthias Andree (matthias-andree) wrote :

At the time when the issue occurred, I did not have the [python-]eyed3 packages installed.

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Steve McIntyre (steve-mcintyre) wrote :

Yes, this should be fixed in the latest upstream release 2.5.4 that's already in Debian unstable. I've been holding back on asking for an unblock for this, but if it's considered serious then an RC bug would be appropriate...

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