Hebrew problem - ripping CDs

[Ori Berger]

Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I've been using k3b to rip my collection of CDs and I noticed that on some CDs 
> the Hebrew file names are recognized and on others not. I assume that Hebrew, 
> encoding, fonts etc are properley set up. Otherwise, it wouldn't work on some 
> CDs. Can anyone tell me if this is a problem in CDDB or the specific CD and if 
> there's a way to fix it (other than manually re-naming each file)?
> 
> BTW - I tried GRIP and had the same problem.

Some of the Hebrew albums in CDDB are stored in CP-1255 (Windows Hebrew 
Codepage) and some in UTF-8. As far as I know it doesn't say anywhere 
inside CDDB how it is stored, so if it doesn't work with one, it should 
work with the other (you have a place to specify that inside grip in the 
DB tab; have no idea about k3b). While it's possible to write a program 
that will detect this automatically with very high probability, I don't 
know of one that exists.

Same problem exists for other non-English albums, btw: some are stored 
in CP-1252, and some in UTF-8; if you have a bjork CD you might have a 
problem getting the umlaut (two dots above the o) to show with the wrong 
encoding.

Ori