Posted by: tigloo
Umlauts missing in visuals - 05/09/2001 03:22
Hi,
when using the visuals, umlauts are not displayed. (i.e. when using the infotext visuals)
Till
Posted by: prolux
Re: Umlauts missing in visuals - 05/09/2001 10:58
The new version of the visuals (not yet released) has a full character set
Toby
Posted by: tms13
Re: Umlauts missing in visuals - 05/09/2001 11:13
What's considered a "full" character set?
Or, equivalently, what character set does the player support?
When I've looked in tags on the player, they appear to be encoded as ISO-8859.1 or similar; does this mean that characters outside the Latin-1 set (e.g. Welsh vowels w and y with circumflex) are not representable?
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Toby Speight - 040103385
Posted by: bonzi
Re: Umlauts missing in visuals - 05/09/2001 12:54
I don't see a solution short of going to full Unicode (or perhaps restricting ourself to 8-bit ISO sets and introducing a tag specifying which to use). My titles have a lot of Latin2 (ISO-8859-2) characters, and there are users from Israel, those who write in one of variants of Cyrilic... I am affraid we will be stuck with Latin1 for a while
Not the end of the world - I have grown up with pure 7-bit ASCII in '70s.
Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green
Posted by: tms13
Re: Umlauts missing in visuals - 06/09/2001 02:37
IIRC, ID3v2 allows labelling of encodings - I guess emptool and emplode probably ignore these and assume ISO-8859.1 instead...
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Toby Speight - 040103385
Posted by: peter
Re: Umlauts missing in visuals - 06/09/2001 02:49
IIRC, ID3v2 allows labelling of encodings - I guess emptool and emplode probably ignore these and assume ISO-8859.1 instead...
ID3v2 supports 8859-1, UTF-16, and (in v2.4.0) UTF-8.
Currently, emptool/emplode ignore UTF-16 and UTF-8 tags -- not that there's much else we can do, with only 8859-1 fonts on the player. This is, of course, a Bad Thing for those who want their songs labelled in Cyrillic, Hebrew, Welsh etc, let alone ideographic languages, but other car-player work has just always had higher priority.
We might do something with Unicode tags for some future car-player release (with UTF-8 on the player), but it won't be in 2.0.
Peter
Posted by: tms13
Character sets (was: Umlauts missing in visuals) - 06/09/2001 03:03
In reply to:
... other car-player work has just always had higher priority.
Sorry if I sounded ungrateful - I agree with the above, and don't currently have any non-Latin-1 tags. It's simply an idle interest for me
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Keep up the good work!
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Toby Speight - 040103385