Re: [gmediaserver-devel] question about character encoding in gmediaserver

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Han,

Created a ticket:

http://www.beastsoft.net/trac/gmediaserver/ticket/5

-Dmitry

Han wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Dmitry Samersoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Han,
> >
> > Han wrote:
> > > Thanks Dmitry for your quick response.
> > >
> > > Using id3lib, in the case of ID3Field_GetASCII, I tried to call iconv
> > > use "GBK" as "from_encoding" instead of ISO8859-1.  And it worked!
> > >
> > > based on this, I was thinking, how about add an option to gmediaserver
> > > so that users can change the from_encoding for ID3v1 tag? will that be
> > > useful?
> > Typical set contains dozen of files with different encodings - i.e. I have
> > files with 2 kind of Russian encoding, Japanese ones, UTF-8 ones and ISO
> > ones on my media server. So this option doesn't help.
> >
> > I think the best way is to run some program that converts all tags to UTF-8
>
> That's true. Indeed there could be multiple different encodings in
> files and cannot pick any one of the encodings.
>
> On the other hand, today gmediaserver automatically treats some such
> encodings as  ISO8859-1 and converts to Unicode that generates
> incorrect results.  How about adding an option in gmediaserver for not
> converting such strings to Unicode? so that the upper applications can
> process the raw strings and convert them properly based on needs.
>
> Thanks.
> Han
>
> > -Dmitry
> >
> >
> > > thanks
> > > Han
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Dmitry Samersoff <address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Han,
> > > >
> > > > Try to disable iconv during compilation of gmediaserver and make sure
> > > > your
> > > > tag library do or don't do conversion.
> > > >
> > > > -Dmitry
> > > >
> > > > Han wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am writing a program to use UPnP to connect to gmediaserver and to
> > > > > browse MP3 songs.
> > > > >
> > > > > One problem I have is that, it seems that for MP3 songs with Chinese
> > > > > song names (MP3 tag) encoded in GB2312 (2 bytes per Chinese
> > > > > character),  the original song name string is converted into 4 bytes
> > > > > per character in the browse result.  The new string seems not valid
> > > > > GB2312, nor valid UTF-8.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am wondering if gmediaserver do any such encoding conversion for
> > > > > song names, or is it libupnp doing such conversion?
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks.
> > > > > Han
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> >
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> > * There will come soft rains ...


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