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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
.Qq Em Title
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
.Bl -tag -width "!!EXAMPLES_DIR!!" -compact
.It Pa !!EXAMPLES_DIR!!