tags: when converting freeform strings try Windows-1252 as fallback instead of ISO...
authorSreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@nokia.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:53:48 +0000 (23:53 +0300)
committerTim-Philipp Müller <tim.muller@collabora.co.uk>
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:33:36 +0000 (10:33 +0100)
Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, which uses some space
allocated to control characters for additional printable characters.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630471

gst-libs/gst/tag/tags.c

index 1a9abcd..ebce1e2 100644 (file)
@@ -442,9 +442,9 @@ gst_tag_freeform_string_to_utf8 (const gchar * data, gint size,
     }
   }
 
-  /* Try ISO-8859-1 */
-  GST_LOG ("Trying to convert freeform string using ISO-8859-1 fallback");
-  utf8 = g_convert (data, size, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", &bytes_read, NULL, NULL);
+  /* Try Windows-1252 */
+  GST_LOG ("Trying to convert freeform string using Windows-1252 fallback");
+  utf8 = g_convert (data, size, "UTF-8", "Windows-1252", &bytes_read, NULL, NULL);
   if (utf8 != NULL && bytes_read == size) {
     goto beach;
   }