When using unicode characters (e.g. chinese) in easytag, a warning message was displayed saying that the id3lib has a bug when handling unicode. The tag with unicode character cannot be saved correctly. When easytag tried to read the unicode tag back, the characters were different. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. input unicode character to an mp3 file in easytag 2. save the mp3 file 3. re-open the file and read the tag back Actual Results: The unicode tag was not the same with the input. Expected Results: The unicode tag should be the same with the input. The warning dialog suggested to patch id3lib with a patch supplied by easytag. It can be found in src/id3lib/patch_id3lib_3.8.3_UTF16_writing_bug.diff in easytag's source tarball. I tried it by adding an epatch in the ebuild and it does fixed the problem. My computer is amd64. The version of easytag is 2.0 and id3lib is 3.8.3.
Created attachment 116279 [details, diff] This patch fixed the problem. It can be found in the easytag tarball. It is attached for your convenient.
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It's allready included in id3lib-3.8.3-r5 by name of id3lib-3.8.3-unicode16.patch. *id3lib-3.8.3-r5 (05 Oct 2006) 05 Oct 2006; Diego Petten<C3><B2> <flameeyes@gentoo.org> +files/id3lib-3.8.3-unicode16.patch, +id3lib-3.8.3-r5.ebuild: Add patch to fix unicode16 writing. Thanks for the users in bug #130922.
