Re: [Libcdio-devel] How tolerant to be towards CD-TEXT character set mislabeling ?

[Ludolf Holzheid]

On 2019-04-27 16:53 -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> As Thomas asks below: should libcdio's CD-TEXT change its behavior from
> assuming an ASCII-encoding by default to instead to use and ISO-8859-1
> encoding, which includes ASCII as a subset?
>
> Unless there is dissent, or have other ideas, we will switch to ISO-8859-1
> as the default CDTEXT encoding.

I would vote for even switching to CP1252, which further extends
ISO-8859-1.  It is the 8-bit character set used by Windows for many
West European languages.  It provides additional opening and closing
quotation marks that tend to slip into Latin1 text if pasted on
windows boxes.

Ludolf

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