1187 Conversion to WAV garbages non-ASCII chars

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1187 Conversion to WAV garbages non-ASCII chars

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Converting a WMA having non-ASCII characters to WAV causes them to appear garbaged in other programs (e.g. WinAmp, Goldwave).

E.g. Diacritics: áéíóúüñ appears as Diacritics: áéíóúüñ

The same WMA converted in GoldWave or dbpoweramp Batch Converter appears fine in MM and other programs.

EDIT Wish maked for this to be changed at http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =4&t=40850
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Re: 1187 Conversion to WAV garbages non-ASCII chars

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MediaMonkey uses UTF-8 String Encoding see This Article
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Re: 1187 Conversion to WAV garbages non-ASCII chars

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> MediaMonkey uses UTF-8 String Encoding

That's a shame - it breaks compliance with the WAV standard.

> This Article

Good workaround - thanks. By the way, that article is incorrect in:
For users who prefer that ASCII always be used, even though it can't represent
foreign characters, the lines below should be added to the MediaMonkey.ini file:
since with those lines added, MM WAV /does/ represent foreign characters such as those reported.
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Re: 1187 Conversion to WAV garbages non-ASCII chars

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> > MediaMonkey uses UTF-8 String Encoding

And actually causes the further problem of failing to read compliant files e.g. title El huracán in a regular file is showed by the MM player as El hurac.
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