The RipIT UTF-8 help
Here you find some basic notes about UTF-8. You find more about Unicode here.
First of all: You need the CDDB_get.pm version ≥ 2.22! Get the newest Version here!

If you use UTF-8, but tags with special characters are not displayed correctly, then you should try the option --noutftag. With this option the tags and only the tags (not the filenames etc.) are written in ISO8859-1. Now Konqueror, Juk and other (mp3) players should display the tags with special characters.

My local setteings...
How do I found out, which language and encoding is used?
  • type locale
    • How do I found out, which languages are installed?
  • type locale -a
    • How do I change the setting using one of the installed versions?
    For example, I use
  • export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
    • Installation
    If you want to use a newly exported language as default one, you may add a line in your ~/.profile file (or create the file) exactly as above: "export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8".
    You should NOT change the settings in your global profile, somer where in /etc!
    I found my profile file with a grep -r 'LANG' * command (as super-user) somewhere in
    /etc/SuSEconfig/. Make changes at your own risk!
    Last update: 3rd of March 2005, mailto: ripit [_at_] suwald [_dot_] com