Bug#336921: gnome-media: Automatic convertion to UTF-8

[ROBERTOJIMENOCA at terra.es]

randhol wrote:
> This is probably something for upstream developers. I listen to a great
> deal of Greek CDs. However, I want to listen to them while using the
> computer or my ogg player so I use goobox/sound juicer to rip the CDs to
> my hard disc. The problem is that many of them are entered in freedb in
> ISO-8859-7 encoding. This is really annoying as I have to retype all the
> tracks into UTF-8. Couldn't cddb-salve2 in gnome-media automatically
> convert from an encoding to UTF-8 if one had chosen the this option in
> the preferences/gconf?
> 
> Anyway this is just a wish, but it would 
make life easier and the
> software more userfriendly...

If you really want to make this userfriendly there shouldn't be a
configuration option anywhere. It should just work.

Do you know of any open source character set decisor that could be used
here?

What happens in the most popular MSWindows freedb software if you import
both a ISO-8859-1 and a ISO-8859-7 CD?



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