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"Big Family Good" - I can speak Mandarin, but I never learned keyboard input, sorry. I

I have a problem I'm sure some of you have solved before, and I hope someone can guide me. My father-in-law wants me to rip some of his audio CDs so he can listen to them on his iPod. These are Taiwanese popular songs from the 1970's - 80's.

I am using K3b to rip the discs to .mp3 files. It seems that the disc signatures are recognized by cddb, and metadata gets downloaded for album/artist/title, but the characters are all garbage - like looking at big5 encoding on an application set for latin1 character set. The ID3 tags, and the auto-generated filenames, are therefore also useless garbage, and the music files are unmanageable, e.g.
However, the box I'm using is running a UTF-8 locale, so that is not exactly the problem:
I suspect the problem lies with the encoding coming back from cddb... like maybe they run a database with latin1 encoding, and some users tried to upload big5 metadata.

Other than getting my wife to type in all the metadata manually (there's quite a bit of it!), is there an automated conversion I can try on the freedb metadata?

Thanks for any help.

I suppose that U can read chinese

最簡單的方法就是用 windows，
裝上 CDex 就很容易了: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
我們中文的 big5 也是 linux 的一個阻礙，
linux 上我沒實際試過，
以下你可以試試：
用 zh_TW.Big5 啟動進 KDE 再用 k3b rip，
用 zh_TW.Big5 啟動 grip

For the filename conversion, convmv is an established solution.
For the ID3 tag encoding, I found Unicode Rewriter, a java application capable of managing this issue. It did not identify the original encoding so it becomes your job. Backup during the trial stage might be considered.