Comment 2 for bug 54136

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Peter Chabada (ubuntu-chabada) wrote :

[uptodate dapper]

It seems the same (or similar) bug covers many applications (easytag, banshee, rhythmbox, totem...). None of them cannot correctly show non ASCII characters. E.g. in banshee I edit metadata and everything seems ok until I try to play it - than it's again bad. The tag is correctly written, but is not correctly read back (or vice versa). In easytag I have the same problem. Saved id3 tag I can correctly read in e.g. in quotlibet but not in application that saves it!

I think it's serious, because id3lib is widely used and in many countries people wants to use id3 tags with non-ascii characters and they cann't. I have many songs with strange characters and it's very annoying. It's called mojibake - look on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake. E.g.: Antonín Dvořák -> Antonín Dvořák; or Strážca pečatí -> Strážca pečatÃ.­