Want to read the cp1251-tags mp3 content

[Strong]

On Mon, 07 May 2007 15:34:23 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 18:50 +0700, Strong wrote:
> > That's how I try to do that:
> > 
> > LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 mplayer *.mp3
> > 
> > Yet I see "????" instead of the Russian letters. How to fix it?
> > 
> > FC6, utf8 locale.
> 
> You're doing the "LANG=" thing with mplayer *because* the files are
> already written using RU.CP1251 ID tags and your system local is UTF8?

True.

> mplayer has a "-msgcharset" parameter which sounds like it might be
> what you want (see the mplayer man file).  Though the default is

$ mplayer -msgcharset ru_RU.CP1251 *
iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to ru_RU.CP1251 unsupported

Although I need reverse conversion...

> listed to be autodetect.  Another possibility is its MPLAYER_CHARSET
> environment variable (also in the man file).  If they do the trick,
> you should be able to customise the mplayer config file to use those
> options by default.

MPLAYER_CHARSET=ru_RU.CP1251 && mplayer *