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Posted by: DarkFox Apr 8 2006, 01:59 PM

Sometimes AMIP doesn´t get national chars, it changes "å" to "e", "ø" to "x" and "æ" to "f" :S
but it only happens with some titles

Posted by: Serge Apr 8 2006, 02:22 PM

AMIP doesn't work with Unicode yet, it only supports tags in the platform default encoding. If the tag has different encoding, AMIP can't read it correctly.

Posted by: Mikka Oct 20 2006, 10:35 AM

Hi Sergej,

I'm using AMIP for about 2 years now and would say that the lack of Unicode support for tagging data is the only thing I'm really missing.
As I fancy scandinavian music (featuring many ä/æ, ö/ø and å in titles) AMIP often writes incorrect strings.
I pondered on a workaround: Converting the tag encoding into the system locale (western european) - keeping the scandinavian special chars.
Do you happen to know a tool that does it? (Simple command line will do.)

Greetings
Mikka

Posted by: Serge Oct 20 2006, 11:11 AM

Sorry, I'm not aware of such tools.

Posted by: g0rey1 May 3 2007, 07:50 PM

well, my issue is that it USED to work and now doesn't.

i have been using AMIP for my sig for years now - 2005, since the previous version - and it always worked with characters such as ö, ï, ø, etc. however, i decided i was going to change my image - first time in a year or so - so i downloaded the latest version of everything, just to be sure, prior to working with it. image change successful, but special characters aren't displaying.

at first i thought it was the fonts i chose. however, after messing around with it for an hour or so, i decided to check my amipweb.out file just for kicks. here's what's going on:

-d "title=Bjvrk+-+Vertabrae+By+Vertabrae"

instead of Björk. so it's wrong before it even reaches my server. so i downgraded AMIP (tried anyway, seemed to work), i downgraded winamp, etc., and am still stuck with the same issue.

and i'm serious, i'm not making this up or dreaming it - it used to work prior to things i changed yesterday. honest!

any thoughts?

Posted by: Serge May 4 2007, 11:41 AM

Your system regional settings can affect the conversion. Make sure system locale is correctly set.

Posted by: g0rey1 May 7 2007, 04:21 PM

unsure what you mean here - it's set to English/US, which is where i am....?