Non-English text is garbled sometimes (non-ASCII mojibake)

[JapanYoshi]

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Current Behavior

As you can see in the screenshot, all non-English text (more precisely, every non-ASCII character) is garbled by the app.

A quick bit of research shows that 令 is the result of mis-interpreting 令 in 令和ポップス, and that the app mis-interprets UTF-8 encoded bytes as Latin-1 (an ancient encoding that nobody serious uses today except where backwards-compatibility with 90s-2000s computer programs is critical).

Oddly enough, some sections are correctly displaying Japanese text, including the same album I used as an example! The use of Latin-1 seems not to be a hard-coded choice, but a mistake in character encoding detection somewhere. I couldn’t imagine Spotify’s API changing character encodings on the fly like that, so forcing UTF-8 should work 100% correctly.

Expected Behavior

Non-ASCII text should display correctly as UTF-8 encoded text. There must be an error introduced somewhere between receiving the data from Spotify’s API and displaying the text on screen. Perhaps some parsing function detects some UTF-8 text as Latin-1, and must be told to always use UTF-8?

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the app
2. Log into Spotify if not already done so
3. Make the app display non-ASCII text

Operating System

Android

Spotube version

v3.6.0

Installation source

F-Droid (Android)

Additional information

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[HUYDGD]

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[UlyC]

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[SuTree]

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[KRTirtho]

Duplicate of #1463