Golden quotes 🏆

[aerozol]

Coolness level one million:

@foxgrrl

So… I used to decipher codes for a living, and I took one look at that CD Stub and thought: “I bet I can decode this.” …and I did! The original metadata (when originally entered into CDDB or whatever) was encoded in CP-950 or BIG5-HKSCS or similar, and then at some time between 2005 to 2011, it got imported (transitively) into MusicBrainz as if it was CP-1252 or ISO8859-1 or similar… which was then converted, as if it was LATIN1 and not BIG5, into UTF-8, which is how you see the data right now in that MusicBrainz CD Stub…