LANG must be "C", when running

[UnitedMarsupials]

Using the tool on FreeBSD-12 to convert tags from CP-1251 to KOI8-U, I found it necessary to set LANG=C before invoking the program.

With my default LANG -- which is uk_UA.KOI8-U here -- I got junk like the below in the tags (printed by mp3info):

Title:   V;5G:> 702820T<>TPUB          Track: 9
Artist:   CA;0=0 F<0=
Album:   1V9<0N #:@0W=CTYER            Year:  2003
Comment:                                Genre:  [255]

[alonbl]

Hi,

This is interesting... the programs always tries to convert to UTF-8 and not to any other format.

Have you used the preserve unicode? Maybe he heuristic is incorrect.

Have you tried the same at Linux? Maybe the iconv has some difference?

Regards,

[UnitedMarsupials]

Maybe the heuristic is incorrect.

What heuristic? I had to specify each encoding explicitly. The command

mp3unicode -s cp1251 -2 KOI8-U -1 KOI8-U 0*mp3

gave me the above-quoted junk. The below worked fine:

env LANG=C mp3unicode -s cp1251 -2 KOI8-U -1 KOI8-U 0*mp3

Have you tried the same at Linux?

Sorry, I have no Linux anywhere here...

[alonbl]

OK, you did not use --preserve-unicode this means that everything is explicit.

So everythingn is explicit, I am unsure why locale affects this... it must be something with iconv, I am glad you have found a solution.

[UnitedMarsupials]

So everythingn is explicit, I am unsure why locale affects this...

Would you care try to reproduce yourself -- on Linux? Such as by having your own locale (LANG) set to a non-Unicode encoding, that matches the specified output (-1 and -2)...