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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: character coding bug started by aaduke
Posted by: aaduke on Sep. 19 2005,00:06
ok i stumbled on something strange here with some scandinavian (!
tunes that have funny 
characters - in tag editor if you for example need to enter an "Æ" (unicode 0x00c6) and use alt+0175 to fetch it you get an "¯" (unicode 0x00af) instead. now if you look at the hex value of "Æ" alt-sequence (175=0xaf) maybe you get an idea what might be wrong sunny side is that characters appear correctly when pasted and of course when the character's unicode and alt-sequence match (as with "å").
kind regards,
aaduke
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 19 2005,00:25
As far as I know, characters entered with alt-sequences in Windows always use decimal number coding? I don't understand where you see the connection between 0xc6 and 175? Please explain further.
Posted by: aaduke on Sep. 21 2005,14:04
i'll try to be clearer, not sure tho if i succeed...i needed to enter an "Æ" (latin capital ligature AE). so i launched charmap and looked up its alt-code 0175. for my surprise when i entered that in mp3ts i got a "¯" (macron aka overline) instead
. well-well.. played around with some other characters and found out that if a characters unicode converted to decimal is different than its alt-code and i enter this alt-code in mp3ts i get a wrong character. and the unicode of that wrong character matches the hex value of my entered alt-code.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 21 2005,14:14
Ok, I see. But I get the same behavior in for example Microsoft Notepad, and any other Windows program I try? It's Windows standard to behave this way, so I cannot understand how you can classify this as a "bug"?
Posted by: aaduke on Sep. 21 2005,14:28
hmmm.. i _did_ try this also in notepad wordpad etc and i did not notice anything like this.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 21 2005,16:00
What version and language localization of Windows do you have? Mp3/Tag Studio behaves just like all other programs in the English version of Windows.
Posted by: aaduke on Sep. 21 2005,22:56
3.5beta16 on english xp pro sp2, 3 machines and i've tried to play around with various regional settings as well. just installed on a 32bit english w2k3 sp1 machine and it seems to behave correctly on that.
anybody else that can share their experienses ?
Posted by: Jens on Oct. 22 2005,14:05
Sometimes I do have same issues like Aadu discribed. But since it happens not so frequently that I need proper unicode handling I can live with it and use foobar2000 or winamp as alternatives
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