flac/mp3 tagging Latin characters

[Nadeem Bitar]

I'm interested to know why en_US works but en_US.UTF-8 doesn't.


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 05:26:42 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2004 11:10:26 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2004 2:25 pm, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > > Latin Songs that I've ripped in Windows have their special
> > characters  
> > > display fine in Linux.
> > >
> > > But when I rip/encode in Linux, that's not so.
> >
> > Hello again Michael,
> >
> > I've been ripping/encoding in Linux for a long time and I never had
> > this kind
> > of problem. I transfer my mp3's to Windows and vice-vesa and they all
> > look
> > fine (character-wise).  I know what you are talking (I have lots of
> > songs
> > which Spanish special characters etc).
> >
> > I think you may be having problems with your LANG setting. Please try
> > doing it
> > all over (rip..encode... on Linux) BUT with "en_US" as the value for
> > your
> > LANG environment variable. Try it and see if it works.
> 
> export LANG=en_US
> sh ~/flac2lame.sh worked.
> 
> Interestingly enough - the tags were fine in flac and ogg without doing
> that. Is that because vorbis tags are utf-8 aware and mp3 tags are not?
> 
> I'm guessing so - thanks for the response!
> 
> 
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