Character encoding issue: on one device, Umlaut incorrectly about radiodroid

[Wikinaut]

Info: this problem is still present in 0.14.6

[segler-alex]

this is a harder bug to fix than it looks :(
the http standard allows only ASCII characters. (basic ASCII)
JAVA does use UTF8, which some standards say is a good solution. but some german radio stations do use ISO 8859-1
i tried to reimplement the whole http request with low level sockets. which works, but maybe there are radio stations out there, which use UTF-8....
this is bad, there is no real solution which works for all. at least as far as i can see it :(
it would be interesting to know how for example japanese or chinese stations do their encoding.

[segler-alex]

i think different phones do behave differently because of different java versions inside. at the moment i use pure java API to get the strings for the radio station name. so that means, some android versions do it one way, some do it the other way.... :(

[Wikinaut]

thanks so far for your efforts.

[pvagner]

I think UTF-8 should become the default sooner than later. Latest versions of icecast and shoutcast are defaulting to UTF-8 I guess.
Then for known older versions we should fall back to iso-8859-1 if this will persist and no better solution will be found.
It'll be additional extra work trying to identify those older servers inspecting their ICY headers, however hopefully there is a way.
I am just going through the code to have better understanding on how this is currently implemented.
I know people building desktop apps such as VLC or Foobar 2000 are facing similar issues.

[Wikinaut]

see #241