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Sync with new reality, and fix a completely botched up sentence.
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@ -462,14 +462,14 @@ When called with the command line parameter
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the program should return only the title information of the metadata.
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.Pq Optional.
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.It
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The supplied metadata should be encoded in UTF-8.
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The supplied metadata must be encoded in UTF-8.
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.El
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.Sh METADATA
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The main tool for handling metadata with
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.Nm
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is placeholders in decoder and encoder commands that are replaced with real
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content during runtime.
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The tricky part about is that one placeholders has to be handled differently
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The tricky part is that one of the placeholders has to be handled differently,
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depending on where the metadata comes from.
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This section will explain each possible scenario.
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.Ss Metadata Placeholders
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@ -571,9 +571,14 @@ subsequently the listeners, different codesets and locales can pose a problem.
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Especially when streaming MP3 files, it may help to explicitly set a codeset
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to work with via the
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.Ev LC_CTYPE
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environment variable.
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Note that non-Ogg streams are restricted to the ISO-8859-1 character set.
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Ogg-based streams use UTF-8.
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environment variable, as
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.Nm
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assumes ID3v1 tags to be in the user's current locale.
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Note that, even though support for different locales is provided by
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.Nm ,
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Icecast itself and the listening clients also have a say in the matter.
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The only way to ensure consistent results with metadata in non-Ogg streams is
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to use the characters available in the ISO-8859-1 codeset.
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.Pp
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External encoders may put additional, and possibly artificial, restrictions on
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valid characters in metadata.
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