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I went through this years ago with openSuSE 9 and Amroka.
I can not read or replace the meta data (information) of files i did not produce, but were most likely encoded on a microsucks windows machine.
In this image you can see the original text data in Mixed encoding as I got it from ?.

the text that is messed up I've tried to enter Cyrillic Text from Keyboard, but when I 'save' and close, what I've typed goes away.
Also, you can see that VLC has no problem displaying the UFT-8 Path to the file on my openSuSE system with mixed Cyrillic / Latin Fonts.
I've tried Everything, which is almost Nothing, I've found here.
Fonts and Theme in QT4 config.
Encodeing / Subtitles font and theme.
My system fonts etc...

This, I am convinced is a File (mp3) Meta Data Encoding Issue, I just don't remember what I did in the past and as I recall, required me to Edit the meta data of every file.. Not something I want to repeat..

Any thing, Any One?
Please.
Спасибо,
Landis
fb/LandisTwo.

VLC uses TagLib to extract metadatas and TagLib follows the specifcation for ID3 tags: they are encoded either in ISO 8859-1 ("Latin-1") or UTF-16. So I am confused why you invoke UTF-8 here.

Most likely your "issue" is due to badly encoded ID3 with some Windows-based crapware. As ISO 8859-1 cannot support the Cyrillic alphabet, you should encode your ID3 tags in UTF-16. Then it will work fine in VLC and any other TagLib-based application.

... ISO 8859-1 ("Latin-1") or UTF-16. So I am confused why you invoke UTF-8 here.

Because I didn't know that and I was trying to give as much information as possible, like My System uses UTF-8 on the desktop and within programs, editor etc..

Most likely your "issue" is due to badly encoded ID3 with some Windows-based crapware. As ISO 8859-1 cannot support the Cyrillic alphabet,

Is there any way or app that you know of that can convert the ID3 data from microsucks windows to usable source ? or is it permanently screwed up and has to be re-typed?

I said I had typed in New Cyrillic (utf-8) and after I saved, closed then opened the file 'information' dialog, the text was back to messed up like in my screenshot.

Thank Very much for reply.
Спасибо,
Landis
fb/LandisTwo
landisteed.com

May be you know of an openSuSE, KDE or konqueror 'plug-in' or app. that will let me edit the ID3 meta data from my filemanager (konqueror or dolphin which i hate) and Not have to load them in VLC?

Thanks again,
Landis.

there are a lot of tools to do just that

I think I've used http://www.zhoufeng.net/eng/id3iconv/ when I had a problem like that

if this 'amazing' 'file manager' Dolphin (шит) did even a fraction of what it's supposed to do, this wouldn't be necessary.

So, Thank you.
Спасибо,
Landis.

there are a lot of tools to do just that

I think I've used http://www.zhoufeng.net/eng/id3iconv/ when I had a problem like that

Everywhere that had it no longer does, even the 2 repos i have for packman.