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Trindol

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Registered: 2008-12-17

Posts: 37

ID3 tag doesn't display the character "ă"

I can see ă in file names, in the terminal, gui programs. Using tagtool, it will correctly show "ă" in a file name, but not in an ID3 tag, it just shows "?" for that character. Same behavior in mpd and mplayer.

I have no problems displaying lots of other non English characters, letters with umlauts, graves, rings, etc.

Edit: I deleted all tags and rewrote them with the command line program id3 making sure to only write v2 tags. The tags work in mpd/sonata now. The strange thing is I had written v2 tags previously and it wasn't working. For some reason deleting everything helped?

Solved I guess,

Last edited by Trindol (2010-12-18 20:40:15)

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: ID3 tag doesn't display the character "ă"

Probably the old tags had a different encoding than your system locale expected, and when you re-typed them, they were written with the correct encoding. Especially if these files came from some other OS, that's very likely.

Trindol

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Registered: 2008-12-17

Posts: 37

Re: ID3 tag doesn't display the character "ă"

You're probably right. The strange thing was that other characters like î, ș, and Ț were working just fine, all in this same batch of files. Only the ă characters were an issue.