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#203 Metadata doesn't handle special characters?
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but when I pass special characters to one of the metadata fields (primarily "title"), the result does not display correctly. For example, I have a track called "Es ist das Mädchen da drüben!" and both umlauted characters display as something else. Opening the resulting file in mp3tag simply truncates the field; Windows Explorer preview shows a question-mark-in-a-diamond placeholder.
Is there a flag I should use to set the encoding correctly? Am I passing it incorrectly? I'd like to call faac.exe from CDex but if I have to wrap it in a batch file or something that would be fine too.
Running version 1.28, if that matters.
Hi Krzysztof, can I ask what you did to try and reproduce this? I don't know a lot about how CDex invokes
faacbut it was definitely broken. I can try working up detailed reproduction instructions to isolate whether it's CDex's fault orfaac's...Hi,
I'm on linux with utf-8 charset. I set the title you use and played it with
mplayer: title OK, umlauts are there.
Maybe if you attach some sample mp4 file it would shed some light on the
problem.
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:45 AM, James ghengis042@users.sf.net wrote:
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Hi,
I'm on linux with utf-8 charset. I set the title you use and played it with mplayer: title OK, umlauts are there.
Maybe if you attach some sample mp4 file it would shed some light on the problem.
This is on the Windows build and could very well be platform-specific to Windows. Is this not the right tracker to report issues with the Windows binary?
Last edit: James 2017-07-03
It really looks like Windows char set thing.
Have you built your faac.exe from source? Generally here we are dealing with source package problems.
I did not build from source -- unfortunately, this was long enough ago that I forgot where I got the precompiled binary I'm using. I thought it was here, but I don't see one available now. Is there an "official" source maintaining precompiled Windows binaries? (Maybe there used to be and now it's not supported?)
I managed to compile windows binary and the problem is real, broken chars.
I will look into this.