FLAC tags and international characters.

[Dolf Dijkstra]

>
> That's true, but SlimServer does support the Latin-1 subset. For
> iTunes and MP3 files, SlimServer takes the unicode text and extracts
> the Latin-1 versions from that. We should update SlimServer
> to, first,
> do the same with Ogg & FLAC tags, then later, add support for full
> UTF8.
>

As pointed out early by Larry, UTF-8 is only part of the puzzle. The
next step is the locale for sorting. Meaning that a slashed-O should
sort in the O range in some locales (for instance utf8.swedish_sweden)
but maybe not in others (or in others users preferences).

Dean: do you have any timeline when to expect UTF-8 handling for
flac/ogg comments and Utf-8 http responses? I am well aware that
'yesterday' is not possible :) I just want to make sure it is on the
radar.
Is there an open bug for this already? If not I will open one.

Please be aware that ISO-8859 is not a subset of UTF-8. For instance:
the copyright character in ISO-8859 does not exists in UTF-8 at the same
code-point.

I am more interested in correct browser display and sorting routines
then squeezebox display, though an extended, but simplified (display a
slashed-O as an O), font for squeeze might quickly solve this issue
once slim is doing UTF-8.

Thx

Dolf

[Peter Speck]

On 13/5-2004, at 11:14, Dolf Dijkstra wrote:

> As pointed out early by Larry, UTF-8 is only part of the puzzle. The
> next step is the locale for sorting. Meaning that a slashed-O should
> sort in the O range in some locales (for instance utf8.swedish_sweden)
> but maybe not in others (or in others users preferences).

Nope.

slash-o is not part of the Swedish alphabet, they use ö (ö) which
sorts after z.

However, slash-o is part of the Danish and Norwegian alphabets, and
sorts after z.

Pronunciation of those two letters are very similar, and ö is named
"Swedish ø" by Danes.

Most non-Scandinavian people makes the mistake that ø and å are
accented letters, but they are completely seperate letters (just like y
is not an accented u).


A detailed explanation of middle and northern European alphabetizing
can be found at:
http://www.rostra.dk/alphabet/alpha_en.htm

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- Peter Speck