BOM showing as text in TXXX tag description

[fluxus]

reposted from https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3/issues/22

I have some files encoded in UTF-16 and if I check the frame headers of the TXXX tags, the encoding byte is set to 01.

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But when getid3 reads the TXXX tags, it shows the bom before the text description. I don't think it's the tagger - tried both mp3tag and picard. Here it is in mp3tag showing the charset and the extended tags:

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and here is the output from demo.basic.php:

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Xampp 1.8.3
getID3 version: 1.9.8-20140511
OS: Win7 x86
Chrome

[James Heinrich]

If you could supply a sample file (post link here, or send link via PM or email) that would be helpful.

[James Heinrich]

Thanks for the sample file. I believe I see the problem you describe, however I'll need to take a closer look at the file contents and the ID3v2 specs and get back to you with a patch.

[James Heinrich]

Very simple fix (translate encoding of the frame description to local encoding), it was just a matter of finding the right place to put it.
https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3 ... 71c91bd7fe