[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#648904: Kid3 doesn't handle UTF-8 properly with ID3v2 tags despite configuration

[Fabien C.]

Package: kid3
Version: 1.4-1+b1
Severity: normal

Kid3 displays ID3v2 tags with the ISO-8859-1 charset even if it is configured to
use UTF-8 for these tags.

The configuration option can be found this way : Settings, Configure Kid3, Tags
tab, ID3v2 section, "Text encoding" option).

However, the "Text encoding" option for ID3v1 is working ok.

To reproduce :
If you do not have a mp3 with an ID3v2 tag encoded with UTF-8, you can use the
"id3v2" tool (packaged as "id3v2") to make one.

Provided that your console is using with UTF-8, you may add a utf8 comment to an
existing mp3 file like this :
 id3v2 -c "Bonne journée" myaudiofile.mp3

Then, the "é" character will not be displayed correctly with kid3, regardless of
what you charset configured to handle your tags (I have "Bonne journée" instead).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kid3 depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime       4:4.4.5-1          runtime components from the offici
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-10          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libflac++6            1.2.1-2+b1         Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8              1.2.1-2+b1         Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1               1:4.4.5-8          GCC support library
ii  libid3-3.8.3c2a       3.8.3-13           A library for manipulating ID3v1 a
ii  libkdecore5           4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdeui5             4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii  libkio5               4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii  libogg0               1.2.0~dfsg-1       Ogg bitstream library
ii  libqt4-dbus           4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network        4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-svg            4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-xml            4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4            4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4             4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6            4.4.5-8            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtag1c2a            1.6.3-1            TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii  libtunepimp5          0.5.3-7.3          MusicBrainz tagging library
ii  libvorbis0a           1.3.1-1            The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3        1.3.1-1            The Vorbis General Audio Compressi

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