Non-ASCII encoding is not supported by text-based meta events about drywetmidi

[melanchall]

OK, I've added TextEncoding property to ReadingSettings and WritingSettings. These changes will be available in the next release of the DryWetMIDI.

To write the text of text-based meta events, for example, in Unicode you will be able to specify desired encoding via WritingSettings:

midiFile.Write("output.mid",
               settings: new WritingSettings { TextEncoding = Encoding.Unicode });

and then you can read this file using the same encoding via ReadingSettings:

var midiFile = MidiFile.Read("input.mid",
                             settings: new ReadingSettings { TextEncoding = Encoding.Unicode });

[melanchall]

DryWetMIDI 1.2.0 has been released. This release contains a fix for this bug as described in the post above.

[nicowitteman]

Max,
Thanks for this. For the text fields (that are represented as 8-bit ASCII, not Unicode), the value "TextEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(28591)" works for me in this specific case (28591 is ISO 8859-1, aka Latin-1).
Kind regards,
Nico

[melanchall]

Nico,

Sounds good, glad to hear that you've solved your problem :)

Max