Bug#655738: Lame does not allow unicode in tags.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-01-13 at 09:55pm, jaakov at ro.ru wrote:
> Package: lame
> Version: 3.99.3+repack1-1
> 
> When trying to make tags having names like José (resp. François),
> the input is truncated at "é" (resp. transformed to "Francois"). For
> example, after
> lame --id3v2-utf16 --tt "José" input.wav output.mp3
> just "Jos" is stored in output.mp3.

Did you in fact encode as UTF16 (not UTF8) in your test?

Just a remark - I am no expert her, just noticing the option you used 
and aware that normal console "Unicode" is in fact UTF8.


 - Jonas

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