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

[Han]

Thanks Dmitry!

Han

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Dmitry Samersoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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