Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] iTunesDB import

[Jens T. <jl...@sh...>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:04:33AM +0200, Jens Taprogge wrote:
> So far the lib does not handle converison of the iTunesDB strings
> (UTF-16). And I am not sure it should. Basically I am undecided between
> not handling conversion (and leaving that part to the app) or converting
> everything to UTF-8. The latter has some performance and/or memory usage
> advantages. What does everyone else think?

Verision 0.2 of the library converts all strings to UTF8. It seems to be
much more convinient that way, saves nearly 50% memory on the strings
and does not add too much overhead. (Since the filenames are within
ASCII range the pathnames can be used 1:1 now).

The tarball is at:
http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/jens.taprogge/files/libitunesdb_0.2.tar.gz

Best Regards
Jens
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Jens Taprogge