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NAME

Audio::TagLib::ID3v1::StringHandler - A abstraction for the string to data encoding in ID3v1 tags.

DESCRIPTION

ID3v1 should in theory always contain ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) data. In practise it does not. Audio::TagLib by default only supports ISO-8859-1 data in ID3v1 tags.

However by subclassing this class and reimplementing parse() and render() and setting your reimplementation as the default with ID3v1::Tag::setStringHandler() you can define how you would like these transformations to be done.

WARNING It is advisable NOT to write non-ISO-8859-1 data to ID3v1 tags. Please consider disabling the writing of ID3v1 tags in the case that the data is ISO-8859-1.

see ID3v1::Tag::setStringHandler()

String parse(ByteVector $data)

Decode a string from $data. The default implementation assumes that $data is an ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character array.

ByteVector|Audio::TagLib::ByteVector render(String $s)>

Encode a ByteVector with the data from $s. The default implementation assumes that $s is an ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) string.

WARNING It is recommended that you NOT override this method, but instead do not write an ID3v1 tag in the case that the data is not ISO-8859-1.

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

Audio::TagLib

AUTHOR

Dongxu Ma, <dongxu@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Dongxu Ma

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.