Posted by Mike P2 on 05/31/07 20:05

On May 31, 11:11 am, Clive Green <e...@clivegreen.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> --
> Clive Green

Play with encoding choices. UTF-8 for both the text file and the PHP
functions you use if possible.

-Mike PII

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