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ID3 tags with accentuated characters not read by WinCAB

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pascal:

Hello,

Your software is really excellent and it will decide me to try to build a juke box from old components that were lying around my office. I only have one issue and I wish that you may help me: when trying to load MP3 of French music (yes, by the way I'm writing from Paris in France) the ID3 tags may contain accentuated characters like

Chris:
This is a known weakness in the software, one that I'm not quite sure how to address.  ID3 tags may contain Unicode characters, and WinCab attempts to use Unicode properly.  It seems to work on some tags and not on others, leading me to believe some tagging tools are using Unicode and some are using some other method like code pages.

In your case, however, it sounds like the tags aren't being read at all, so the accented characters may not really be the issue.  Are the tags being read for ANY of your songs?

--Chris

pascal:
What a quick answer...

It looks like no tags containing accented characters are being read, but when the file name is used, if it contains those type of characters they are displayed. Still I got the impression that once in a while it works. For English songs it works perfectly. Any idea of a tagging tool that use 100% unicode characters that I could use to do more test?

Pascal

Chris:
If you're using Windows XP, you can edit the tags right in Explorer by going to the file's Propertes, then the Summary tab.

Note that if you are using an internationalized version of Windows with a non-English codepage, WinCab will almost certainly not read files with accented characters in the filenames; this is a known bug.

--Chris

pascal:
I using a French version of Windows XP and I haven't notice any issue with the file name.
Concerning the ID Tags,

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