# Golden quotes 🏆

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/golden-quotes/561717
**Category:** General chatter
**Tags:** community, fun, off-topic
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/golden-quotes/561717 "2021-12-01T19:58:57Z")
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### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/golden-quotes/561717/91 "2026-08-06T09:44:18Z")

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Coolness level one million:

> [@That album, you know, "½Ð¸ò§Ú¨Ó" by "¤pè". It's a very popular CD!](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/that-album-you-know-d-o-u-o-by-pe-its-a-very-popular-cd/815409/1):
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> 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…

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