#183 Encoding issue on every file

[ludo]

Hello,
this may be difficult to explain but Kid3 is pretty much screwing encoding and tags for every file I throw at it. I kind of suspect it may be even issue with some underlying library somewhere. But what is actually happening:

• if i open files that were correctly tagged before (even years, and every other app can read them correctly), Kid3 is not showing correctly encoded values for ID3v1 but a string of chinese (or other asian) characters.
• if i try to write something, on save it gets converted instantly to chinese characters, what is worse even other apps are reading it like that afterwards
• if i use some other tagging app, and write ID3v2, Kid3 reads this correctly

I am using KDE neon, which pretty much fits to ubuntu 16.04 with uptodate KDE libs. I was using Kid3 before and it was working flawlessly. I have no idea what may be causing this. Almost looks like some hardware issue appearing, but that would be weird since everything else works normally. When I try Kid3 on other machine it works.

Maybe it would be possible to at least point me where I could start look for an issue?

[Urs Fleisch]

Unfortunately, this is a known problem on KDE Neon, see
https://sourceforge.net/p/kid3/discussion/241228/thread/2b422d49/#bd29

[ludo]

Ah, thanks! Solution was pretty easy in that case. I guess can close this ticket then.