Support and General Use > Theming and Appearance Customization
How do I use/select specific characters from a font map?
pixelma:
--- Quote from: bascule on January 17, 2007, 04:10:32 AM ---The codepage option is a kind of safety net underneath all of that to allow ID3v1 strings without the embedded character encoding information to be handled correctly.
--- End quote ---
This is what I wanted to point out in the former post. Because I think it is important to know that...
...there is no difference in displaying unknown characters in ID3v1 tags whether the .wps file was saved in UTF-8 or ANSI.
To be really sure I did some experimenting with a utf-8- and ansi-version of my WPS, songs with an umlaut in the album tag (ID3v1 tags only) and different default codepage settings.
* As expected the ansi-version displayed the "box" for unknown sign in the wps itself -
the tags showed the "box" with the wrong default codepage - they were correct with the right codepage setting.
* The unicode version, of course, showed the right characters in the wps but...
the tags showed the "box" with the wrong default codepage - they were correct with the right codepag setting.
I thought the case was closed with it but now I am confused (and it honestly wasn't my goal to keep this thread alive unnecessarily :-\ )...
I retagged some of the songs as ID3v2.3 using "The GodFather" and "Multi ID3 Tageditor" and got the same results as described above. So either the taggers don't write them correctly or Rockbox doesn't use the codepage information from the tags. Does someone know or have tried too?
bascule:
--- Quote from: pixelma on January 17, 2007, 07:23:38 AM ---I retagged some of the songs as ID3v2.3 using "The GodFather" and "Multi ID3 Tageditor" and got the same results as described above.
--- End quote ---
Did you change [menu]>General Settings>Playback>ID3 Tag Priority?
Rockbox may have still been looking at the v1 tags... ;)
pixelma:
--- Quote from: bascule on January 17, 2007, 08:40:58 AM ---Did you change [menu]>General Settings>Playback>ID3 Tag Priority?
--- End quote ---
Nice tip, thanks. Actually I hadn't checked it before but I always have "V2 then V1" set.
So I set it again and to eliminate that this setting has an influence I even deleted the ID3v1 tags...
Still no change.
bascule:
OK...... so that seems to discount that possibility...
--- Quote from: pixelma on January 17, 2007, 07:23:38 AM ---the tags showed the "box" with the wrong default codepage - they were correct with the right codepage setting.
--- End quote ---
So where/how are you viewing the tag information in rockbox i.e., ID3 viewer, database view etc.?
Reading through some of the old posts concerning unicode and the conversion of rockbox to unicode/utf-8 late in 2005, it seems that there were some problems with some screens not working correctly following the change. Maybe there are still some unconverted parts of the code?
pixelma:
Since we were talking wps... it was in the wps (but Database and ID3 viewer too) though that's not so important anymore because I found the reason...
--- Quote from: bascule on January 17, 2007, 04:10:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: pixelma on January 16, 2007, 06:22:51 PM ---Is it safe to say that there could be problems with characters out of the said ISO-8859-1 range if the tag-program messes things up?
--- End quote ---
Yes. I think generally that most applications then default to displaying the 'unknown character' symbol, either a rectangle or a question mark.
--- End quote ---
Definitely!
This is what happened to me with the two above mentioned tag programs (maybe there is an option for it in either one but I couldn't find it yet). Before replying I asked around and someone recommended "mp3tag" to me and ID3v2.3 written by this program work fine :). The related setting is also easy to find but it defaults to UTF-16 anyways.
Hope all is clarified now! :D
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version