Posted by Clive Green on 05/31/07 14:43

Hello peeps,

I am using PHP 5.2.2 together with MP3_Id (a PEAR module for reading and
writing MP3 tags). I have been using PHP on the command line (Mac OS X
Unix shell, to be precise), and am getting on more or less OK.

So far, I have managed to parse my tab-delimited .txt file properly into
an array, and then use this array to update the tags on a bunch of MP3
audio files. Nice.

Thing is, some of the track names specified in my text file are in
Simplified Chinese characters. These show up just fine within my .txt
file's editor (TextMate), but appear garbled within the final output.
Ack.

What I need is a way of reading and/or preserving the Chinese
characters, so that I can (hopefully) write them to my MP3 files.

I am sure some of you have already cracked this one a long time ago. I
hope you'll exercise some patience and give me a few pointers here!

I am not much more than a PHP newbie, so forgive me if I have overlooked
anything obvious :-)

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Clive Green

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