Re: [tlug] Does my Japanese Android phone not speak Japanese?

[Martin Killmann <martin@example.com>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:18 +0900 
Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

> [... MP3s ...]
> 
> The titles are not in "Japanese," but in some encoding that includes
> Japanese characters, such as EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or UTF-8. You need to set
> both systems to use the same encoding.

Is there a reliable way to determine the text encoding in MP3 tags? 
Do the files even carry that information?

It seems like applications are left to wild mass guessing, otherwise
mojibake wouldn't be such a persistent problem with mp3 id tags.

Martin