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cheked on:
Win XP SP3 with vlc 0.8.6....
Win7 RC1 with 0.9.9
Ubintu 9 with 0.9.9

russian MP3 tags displayed with default US locale

language for non-unicode programms in windows
and default language in ubuntu set to russian.

totem in ubuntu not dispayed tag correctly too
winanp for win works fine.

Try VLC 1.0.0-rc3

same thing on win7
if i typing russian text and save it - it save it as unicode, but original non-unicode texts become damaged

Fill a bug.

Workaround:
You can convert all MP3 tags to UTF-8 codepage.
If you have linux, issue command in directory with mp3 files:

find -exec mid3iconv -eCP1251 --remove-v1 {} \;

Best regards!