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Expand the "Metadata Caveats" subsection wrt codesets and actual abilities of

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ezstream and Icecast.


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@ -557,6 +557,26 @@ which means that anything set with the
feature will continue to end up entirely in the feature will continue to end up entirely in the
.Qq Em Title .Qq Em Title
field of a stream. field of a stream.
.Pp
Of all possible Ogg-based streams, only Ogg Vorbis can have its metadata
manipulated by Icecast.
Any attempt of
.Nm
to update other Ogg metadata is actually a no-op.
.Pp
While
.Nm
tries to do its best with relaying metadata accurately to Icecast, and
subsequently the listeners, different codesets and locales can pose a problem.
Especially when streaming MP3 files, it may help to explicitly set a codeset
to work with via the
.Ev LC_CTYPE
environment variable.
Note that non-Ogg streams are restricted to the ISO-8859-1 character set.
Ogg-based streams use UTF-8.
.Pp
External encoders may put additional, and possibly artificial, restrictions on
valid characters in metadata.
.Sh FILES .Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "!!EXAMPLES_DIR!!" -compact .Bl -tag -width "!!EXAMPLES_DIR!!" -compact
.It Pa !!EXAMPLES_DIR!! .It Pa !!EXAMPLES_DIR!!