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It would be nice, if the option "--no-utf8-convert"
from metaflac would also exist for flac.
Now I cannot tag songs with japanese titles in UTF-8
representation directly; I need to do encoding (flac)
and tagging (metaflac) in separate steps.

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why it this? with flac -T, the tags are specified on the
command line. if your command-line already has utf-8 tags
then your locale should be utf-8 and flac won't convert
anyway. otherwise the locale should match the charset used
on the command line to get a proper conversion.

Josh

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This is true, a correct UTF-8 setup does not need this option.
On the other hand, why then metaflac has it?

I once had the problem that I did not had the correct setup
and used "grip" for tagging, which still supplied correct
UTF-8 Tags to flac. But flac converted them which I found
out after copying the files to my mobile music player.

My Conclusion: It would be nice to have when it makes no big
effort.

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would be useful with --tag-from-file, see comments:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1667652&group_id=13478&atid=363478

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Correct, for decent setup (means UTF-8 command line) there is no need. This is how I use flac also nowadays.

But back then the problem was:
grip: Supplies -T <utf-8 encoded>
flac: gets <utf-8>, but locale was iso-something
- flac sees locale and automaticlly tries conversion <iso-something> ---> <utf-8>
But what really happens is: <utf-8> ---> <something broken>

This works fine in such a kind of environment (because displaying tools revert the broken conversion), but when you move it to a hardware player of course it cannot diplay the broken tags at all.

I hope I made by problems now clear from back then <g>

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ok, checked in, will be in next release.

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