Bug 94061

Summary: Problems with umlauts in comments
Product: [Unmaintained] kaudiocreator Reporter: Fridtjof Busse <kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Gerd Fleischer <gerdfleischer>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Screenshot of settign codepage in "change encoding"

Description Fridtjof Busse 2004-11-28 09:51:02 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

If the album/artist/title comment includes an umlaut, kaudiocreator creates the correct filenames, but the commenta-tags are broken, they contain a "#" instead of ä,ö,ü (using FLAC in my case). After correcting the tags, they contain the umlauts correctly.
Comment-tags support umlauts, so this is a bug.
Comment 1 icefox 2005-04-11 01:20:10 UTC
When I encode with lame it works as expected, when I use the flac encoder it doesn't work.  At this point I am pretty sure it is in fact a bug in flac.
Comment 2 icefox 2005-04-11 01:30:03 UTC
Opened a bug with flac, well see what they say.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1180403&group_id=13478&atid=113478
Comment 3 solsTiCe 2006-02-07 19:42:31 UTC
the same happenned to me ! 
but i was encoding ogg files. and the tags of the ogg contains # instead of é and è. But the filenames were correct. 

So it is not only a bug in flac but somewhere in kaudiocreator. because it can't be both a bug of flac and oggenc, isn't it ?? 

The tag retrieved from freedb where displayed correctly by kaudiocreator (i.e. with é and è) but the tag of the files created were wrong.

kaudiocreator 1.13 kde 3.5.1 slackware 10.2 packages from kde.org
Comment 4 willicat 2006-09-12 21:37:22 UTC
Created attachment 17744 [details]
Screenshot of settign codepage in "change encoding"

This screenshot shows the settings in the window "change encoding". The
combobox "Kodierung" (german) has no effect.
Comment 5 shattered 2007-07-29 16:04:02 UTC
kaudiocreator does not directly set tags, it calls 'oggenc' and 'flac' with appropriate options.  It just so happens that both 'oggenc' and 'flac' use the same charset conversion code, which puts '#' into output string if input string was 'invalid'.
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 03:51:48 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 7 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 16:05:27 UTC
This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/kaudiocreator

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.