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ID3V2 Tag Encoding
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:53 pm
by GHammer
I can pick from ISO, UTF-8, and UTF-16
What is the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16?
Others use UTF-8 with 2.4 tags and UTF-16 with 2.3.
The Godfather uses only 2.3 tags.
Re: ID3V2 Tag Encoding
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:12 pm
by jtclipper
In short, UTF8 will use single byte characters up to ASCII 127 and UTF16 will use double byte for everything.
As for 2.4 vs. 2.3 I am reluctant to mark the files as 2.4 because so many other software behave erratically with those tags it's rather annoying.
Re: ID3V2 Tag Encoding
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:20 pm
by MotRoUS
I'm glad you know all this stuff. I have no idea what's going on.
Re: ID3V2 Tag Encoding
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:32 am
by GHammer
Dimitris wrote:
In short, UTF8 will use single byte characters up to ASCII 127 and UTF16 will use double byte for everything.
As for 2.4 vs. 2.3 I am reluctant to mark the files as 2.4 because so many other software behave erratically with those tags it's rather annoying.
So, for 'Western' charsets, UTF-8 ought to be good.
As for 2.4, I'm of two minds on that. Several apps now use 2.4 as default. Windows 7 however is a 2.3 stalwart, so...