diff -dPNur id3lib-3.8.3-orig/configure.in id3lib-3.8.3-new/configure.in
--- id3lib-3.8.3-orig/configure.in	2003-03-02 01:23:00.000000000 +0100
+++ id3lib-3.8.3-new/configure.in	2005-07-19 22:03:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -217,6 +217,20 @@
   LIBS="$LIBS $ICONV_LIB"
 fi
 
+AC_CHECK_LIB(rcc, rccInit,[
+    AC_CHECK_HEADERS(librcc.h,[
+       LIBRCC_LIBS="-lrcc"
+       LIBRCC_INCLUDES="-DHAVE_LIBRCC"
+    ],[
+       LIBRCC_LIBS=""
+       LIBRCC_INCLUDES=""
+])],[
+    LIBRCC_LIBS=""
+    LIBRCC_INCLUDES=""
+])
+AC_SUBST(LIBRCC_LIBS)
+AC_SUBST(LIBRCC_INCLUDES)
+
 dnl Check for c++ features
 AC_LANG_SAVE
 AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
@@ -315,5 +329,5 @@
   src/Makefile                  \
   examples/Makefile             \
   prj/Makefile			\
-  libprj/Makefile
+  libprj/Makefile		
 )
diff -dPNur id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/field_string_ascii.cpp id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/field_string_ascii.cpp
--- id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/field_string_ascii.cpp	2003-03-02 01:23:00.000000000 +0100
+++ id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/field_string_ascii.cpp	2005-07-19 21:34:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "field_impl.h"
 #include "id3/utils.h" // has <config.h> "id3/id3lib_streams.h" "id3/globals.h" "id3/id3lib_strings.h"
 #include "io_helpers.h"
+#include "rccpatch.h"
 
 using namespace dami;
 
@@ -92,8 +93,15 @@
       buffer != NULL && maxLength > 0)
   {
     String data = this->GetText();
+    char *recoded = rccPatchRecode(data.data(), (size_t)data.size(), (size_t*)&size);
+    if (recoded) {
+	size = dami::min(maxLength, size);
+	::memcpy(buffer, recoded, size);
+	free(recoded);
+    } else {
     size = dami::min(maxLength, data.size());
     ::memcpy(buffer, data.data(), size);
+    }
     if (size < maxLength)
     {
       buffer[size] = '\0';
diff -dPNur id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/Makefile.am id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/Makefile.am
--- id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/Makefile.am	2003-03-02 01:23:00.000000000 +0100
+++ id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/Makefile.am	2005-07-19 21:38:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 zlib_include = 
 endif
 
-INCLUDES = \
+INCLUDES = @LIBRCC_INCLUDES@ \
   @ID3LIB_DEBUG_FLAGS@ -I$(top_srcdir)/include/id3 -I$(top_srcdir)/include $(zlib_include)
 
 noinst_HEADERS =                \
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
   header_tag.h                  \
   mp3_header.h                  \
   tag_impl.h                    \
-  spec.h                        
+  spec.h                        \
+  rccpatch.h
 
 id3lib_sources =                \
   c_wrapper.cpp                 \
@@ -66,7 +67,8 @@
   tag_parse_v1.cpp              \
   tag_render.cpp                \
   utils.cpp                     \
-  writers.cpp                   
+  writers.cpp                   \
+  rccpatch.cpp
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES   = libid3.la 
 
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@
 endif
 
 libid3_la_LDFLAGS = \
+  @LIBRCC_LIBS@ \
   -lz \
   -version-info $(LT_VERSION) \
   -release $(LT_RELEASE) \
diff -dPNur id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/rccpatch.cpp id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/rccpatch.cpp
--- id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/rccpatch.cpp	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/rccpatch.cpp	2005-07-19 22:10:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "../config.h"
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# include <librcc.h>
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# define ID3_CLASS 0
+# define OUT_CLASS 1
+static rcc_class classes[] = {
+    { "id3", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, "ID3 Encoding", 0 },
+    { "out", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, "Output Encoding", 0 },
+    { NULL, RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0 }
+};
+
+static int rcc_initialized = 0;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+void rccPatchFree() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (rcc_initialized) {
+       rccFree();
+       rcc_initialized = 0;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+void rccPatchInit() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (rcc_initialized) return;
+    rccInit();
+    rccInitDefaultContext(NULL, 0, 0, classes, 0);
+    rccLoad(NULL, "xmms");
+    rccInitDb4(NULL, NULL, 0);
+    rcc_initialized = 1;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+static void rccPatchTryInit() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (!rcc_initialized) {
+	rccPatchInit();
+	if (rcc_initialized) atexit(rccPatchFree);	
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+char *rccPatchRecode(const char *str, size_t len, size_t *rlen) {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    char *res;
+    rccPatchTryInit();
+    return rccSizedRecode(NULL, ID3_CLASS, OUT_CLASS, str, len, rlen);
+#else
+    return NULL;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
diff -dPNur id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/rccpatch.h id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/rccpatch.h
--- id3lib-3.8.3-orig/src/rccpatch.h	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ id3lib-3.8.3-new/src/rccpatch.h	2005-07-19 21:34:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+void rccPatchFree();
+void rccPatchInit();
+char *rccPatchRecode(const char *str, size_t len, size_t *rlen);