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[Andre Gosselin]

(09-01-2015 08:29)simoncn Wrote:  Can you post a link to an example PDF booklet that is causing this problem?

Simon,
The booklet comes from the "Callas Remastered" edition, which is not publicly available. I have uploaded the booklet to your ftp server, under "/andregosselin".

Try pasting in a COMMENT tag the contents of the last page of the booklet:

Quote:Recorded: 12–17.VI.1954, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Producer: Walter Legge · Balance engineer: Robert Beckett
Recorded in cooperation with E.A. Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Newly remastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road Studios
Digital remastering
2014 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Music Group Company.
? 2014 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Music Group Company.
http://www.warnerclassics.com

I realize that, when creating this message, I can see two offending characters (originally shown in the PDF as a copyright symbol, and a 'P' inside a circle). But when pasting to a COMMENT tag using mp3tag, foobar or mediamonkey, only the second one is "hinted" at in the software UI. The same is true once my message is previewed: the first illegal character goes unnoticed.

Hunting for illegal characters introduced by a cut&paste operation can thus quickly become really troublesome. Cutting & pasting inside the comments tag appears such a natural thing to do (at least for me) that I risk the suggestion that, for this tag only, illegal characters should be reported in the log, but stripped so that the tag contents can be safely and usefully passed to the control point.

Thanks for your help