There is no recode patch in current xmms version. That makes impossible to work with id3 tags in encoding different from locale. It's very actual for russian encodings. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add to playlist file with different (from locale) id3 encoding. Actual Results: Tag info is shown in wrong charset. Expected Results: Tag info is shown in wright charset.
Our xmms codebase is too far off from 1.2.10 to make this reasonable. xmms-mpg123 and xmms-vorbis have good locale support builtin including unicode, so make sure you're using xmms-mpg123 and not xmms-mad.
Using xmms-mpg123 don't solve ID3 editing problems.
I'm now add patch for XMMS portage-2006_01_10.tar.bz2 from RusXMMS (http://rusxmms.sourceforge.net/) in my local portage tree and successfully emerge it. It work fine! Please, add this patches in portage tree.
*** Bug 141650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***