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Default Text Encoding to use when writing ID3v23 tags

For ID3v23 we can select the default text encoding to use. Most of the time the IS0-8859-1 encoding can be used but if we have values that use special characters or that are written in a language other than English then the UTF-16 sometimes have to be used instead. The difference is that IS0-8859-1 uses one byte per character, UTF-16 uses two bytes per character so that it can store a wider range of characters - but requires more space.

By selecting the UTF-16 option Jaikoz will write every field to UTF-16 even if not required, it is usually better to just use IS0-8859-1 when we can use it. UTF-16 will automatically be use for ID3v23 when it is required and is unaffected by this option.

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