diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/config.h.cmake taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/config.h.cmake
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/config.h.cmake	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/config.h.cmake	2019-09-01 08:32:29.569443643 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 /* Indicates whether debug messages are shown even in release mode */
 #cmakedefine   TRACE_IN_RELEASE 1
 
+/* Defined if you have LibRCC from RusXMMS project */
+#cmakedefine   HAVE_LIBRCC 1
+
 #cmakedefine TESTS_DIR "@TESTS_DIR@"
 
 #endif
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/ConfigureChecks.cmake taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/ConfigureChecks.cmake
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/ConfigureChecks.cmake	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/ConfigureChecks.cmake	2019-09-01 08:32:29.577443787 +0200
@@ -213,3 +213,5 @@
 if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "WindowsStore")
 	set(PLATFORM WINRT 1)
 endif()
+
+SET(HAVE_LIBRCC 1)
\ No newline at end of file
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/examples/tagreader_c.c taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/examples/tagreader_c.c
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/examples/tagreader_c.c	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/examples/tagreader_c.c	2019-09-01 08:32:29.577443787 +0200
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   TagLib_Tag *tag;
   const TagLib_AudioProperties *properties;
 
-  taglib_set_strings_unicode(FALSE);
+  //taglib_set_strings_unicode(FALSE);
 
   for(i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
     printf("******************** \"%s\" ********************\n", argv[i]);
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/examples/tagwriter.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/examples/tagwriter.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/examples/tagwriter.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/examples/tagwriter.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.577443787 +0200
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     if(isArgument(argv[i]) && i + 1 < argc && !isArgument(argv[i + 1])) {
 
       char field = argv[i][1];
-      TagLib::String value = argv[i + 1];
+      TagLib::String value(argv[i + 1], TagLib::String::Locale);
 
       TagLib::List<TagLib::FileRef>::ConstIterator it;
       for(it = fileList.begin(); it != fileList.end(); ++it) {
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/CMakeLists.txt taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/CMakeLists.txt
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/CMakeLists.txt	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/CMakeLists.txt	2019-09-01 08:32:29.577443787 +0200
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
   audioproperties.h
   taglib_export.h
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../taglib_config.h
+  toolkit/rccpatch.h
   toolkit/taglib.h
   toolkit/tstring.h
   toolkit/tlist.h
@@ -312,6 +313,7 @@
 )
 
 set(toolkit_SRCS
+  toolkit/rccpatch.cpp
   toolkit/tstring.cpp
   toolkit/tstringlist.cpp
   toolkit/tbytevector.cpp
@@ -354,7 +356,9 @@
 add_library(tag ${tag_LIB_SRCS} ${tag_HDRS})
 
 if(HAVE_ZLIB AND NOT HAVE_ZLIB_SOURCE)
-  target_link_libraries(tag ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
+  target_link_libraries(tag rcc ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
+else ()
+  target_link_libraries(tag rcc)
 endif()
 
 set_target_properties(tag PROPERTIES
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v1/id3v1tag.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v1/id3v1tag.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v1/id3v1tag.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v1/id3v1tag.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.577443787 +0200
@@ -69,15 +69,18 @@
 
 String ID3v1::StringHandler::parse(const ByteVector &data) const
 {
-  return String(data, String::Latin1).stripWhiteSpace();
+  return String(data, String::Latin1ID3).stripWhiteSpace();
 }
 
 ByteVector ID3v1::StringHandler::render(const String &s) const
 {
-  if(s.isLatin1())
-    return s.data(String::Latin1);
-  else
+  if(!s.isLatin1())
+  {
+   if (String::ID3WType(String::Latin1) == String::Latin1)
     return ByteVector();
+  }
+
+  return s.data(String::Latin1ID3);
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -262,7 +265,7 @@
     d->track   = static_cast<unsigned char>(data[offset + 29]);
   }
   else
-    d->comment = data.mid(offset, 30);
+    d->comment = stringHandler->parse(data.mid(offset, 30));
 
   offset += 30;
 
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/commentsframe.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/commentsframe.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/commentsframe.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/commentsframe.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.578443805 +0200
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@
     return;
   }
 
-  d->textEncoding = String::Type(data[0]);
+  d->textEncoding = String::ID3Type(data[0]);
   d->language = data.mid(1, 3);
 
-  int byteAlign = d->textEncoding == String::Latin1 || d->textEncoding == String::UTF8 ? 1 : 2;
+  int byteAlign = (d->textEncoding == String::Latin1 || d->textEncoding == String::Latin1ID3 || d->textEncoding == String::Latin1ID3V2 || d->textEncoding == String::UTF8) ? 1 : 2;
 
   ByteVectorList l = ByteVectorList::split(data.mid(4), textDelimiter(d->textEncoding), byteAlign, 2);
 
@@ -173,11 +173,13 @@
   ByteVector v;
 
   String::Type encoding = d->textEncoding;
+  
+  encoding = String::ID3WType(encoding);
 
   encoding = checkTextEncoding(d->description, encoding);
   encoding = checkTextEncoding(d->text, encoding);
 
-  v.append(char(encoding));
+  v.append(char(String::ID3RealType(encoding)));
   v.append(d->language.size() == 3 ? d->language : "XXX");
   v.append(d->description.data(encoding));
   v.append(textDelimiter(encoding));
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/textidentificationframe.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/textidentificationframe.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/textidentificationframe.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/textidentificationframe.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.578443805 +0200
@@ -191,12 +191,12 @@
 
   // read the string data type (the first byte of the field data)
 
-  d->textEncoding = String::Type(data[0]);
+  d->textEncoding = String::ID3Type(data[0]);
 
   // split the byte array into chunks based on the string type (two byte delimiter
   // for unicode encodings)
 
-  int byteAlign = d->textEncoding == String::Latin1 || d->textEncoding == String::UTF8 ? 1 : 2;
+  int byteAlign = (d->textEncoding == String::Latin1 || d->textEncoding == String::Latin1ID3 || d->textEncoding == String::Latin1ID3V2 || d->textEncoding == String::UTF8) ? 1 : 2;
 
   // build a small counter to strip nulls off the end of the field
 
@@ -227,11 +227,14 @@
 
 ByteVector TextIdentificationFrame::renderFields() const
 {
-  String::Type encoding = checkTextEncoding(d->fieldList, d->textEncoding);
+  String::Type encoding = d->textEncoding;
+  
+  encoding = String::ID3WType(encoding);
+  encoding = checkTextEncoding(d->fieldList, encoding);
 
   ByteVector v;
 
-  v.append(char(encoding));
+  v.append(char(String::ID3RealType(encoding)));
 
   for(StringList::ConstIterator it = d->fieldList.begin(); it != d->fieldList.end(); it++) {
 
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/id3v2frame.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/id3v2frame.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/id3v2frame.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/mpeg/id3v2/id3v2frame.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.578443805 +0200
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
   if((encoding == String::UTF8 || encoding == String::UTF16BE) && version != 4)
     return String::UTF16;
 
-  if(encoding != String::Latin1)
+  if((encoding != String::Latin1)&&(encoding != String::Latin1ID3V2))
     return encoding;
 
   for(StringList::ConstIterator it = fields.begin(); it != fields.end(); ++it) {
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.cpp	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.cpp	2019-09-01 08:32:29.578443805 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include <string>
+#include "tstring.h"
+#include "tbytevector.h"
+
+//#define RCC_DEBUG
+
+
+#ifndef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# ifdef RCC_DEBUG
+#  include <stdio.h>
+# endif /* RCC_DEBUG */
+# include <librcc.h>
+# include <string.h>
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# define ID3_CLASS 0
+# define ID3V2_CLASS 1
+# define UTF_CLASS 2
+# define OUT_CLASS 3
+static rcc_class classes[] = {
+    { "id3", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, "ID3 Encoding", 0 },
+    { "id3v2", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, "id3", NULL, "ID3 v.2 Encoding", 0 },
+    { "utf", RCC_CLASS_KNOWN, "UTF-8", NULL, "Unicode Encoding", 0},
+    { "out", RCC_CLASS_TRANSLATE_LOCALE, "LC_CTYPE", NULL, "Output Encoding", 0 },
+    { NULL, RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0 }
+};
+
+static int rcc_initialized = 0;
+
+static rcc_context ctx = NULL;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+void rccTaglibPatchFree() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (rcc_initialized) {
+       rccFree();
+       rcc_initialized = 0;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+void rccTaglibPatchInit() {
+#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 */
+}
+
+void rccTaglibPatchSetContext(void *newctx) {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (newctx) {
+	ctx = (rcc_context)newctx;
+	rcc_initialized = 1;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+static void rccTaglibPatchTryInit() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (!rcc_initialized) {
+	rccTaglibPatchInit();
+	if (rcc_initialized) atexit(rccTaglibPatchFree);	
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutput(const std::string &s) {
+    TagLib::ByteVector v;
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t rlen;
+    char *res;
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+
+    res = rccSizedRecode(ctx, UTF_CLASS, OUT_CLASS, s.c_str(), s.length(), &rlen);
+#ifdef RCC_DEBUG
+    for (const unsigned char *c = (const unsigned char*)s.c_str(); *c; c++) {
+	if (*c > 127) {
+	    printf(" Output: %s - %s\n", s.c_str(), res?res:"null");
+	    break;
+	}
+    }
+#endif /* RCC_DEBUG */
+
+    if (res) v.setData(res, rlen);
+    else v.setData("", 0);
+    //v.setData(s.c_str(), s.length());
+
+    return v;
+#else
+    v.setData("", 0);
+    
+    return v;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutputID3(const std::string &s, bool v2 = false) {
+    TagLib::ByteVector v;
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t rlen;
+    char *res;
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+
+    res = rccSizedRecode(ctx, UTF_CLASS, v2?ID3V2_CLASS:ID3_CLASS, s.c_str(), s.length(), &rlen);
+#ifdef RCC_DEBUG
+    for (const unsigned char *c = (const unsigned char*)s.c_str(); *c; c++) {
+	if (*c > 127) {
+	    printf(" OutputID3(%i): %s - %s\n", v2, s.c_str(), res?res:"null");
+	    break;
+	}
+    }
+#endif /* RCC_DEBUG */
+
+    if (res) v.setData(res, rlen);
+    else v.setData("", 0);
+    //v.setData(s.c_str(), s.length());
+
+    return v;
+#else
+    v.setData("", 0);
+    
+    return v;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeInput(const std::string &s) {
+    TagLib::ByteVector v;
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t rlen;
+    char *res;
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+
+    res = rccSizedRecode(ctx, OUT_CLASS, UTF_CLASS, s.c_str(), s.length(), &rlen);
+#ifdef RCC_DEBUG
+    for (const unsigned char *c = (const unsigned char*)s.c_str(); *c; c++) {
+	if (*c > 127) {
+	    printf(" Input: %s - %s\n", s.c_str(), res?res:"null");
+	    break;
+	}
+    }
+#endif /* RCC_DEBUG */
+
+    if (res) v.setData(res, rlen);
+    else
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+    v.setData("", 0);
+    
+    return v;
+}
+
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeInputID3(const std::string &s, bool v2 = false) {
+    TagLib::ByteVector v;
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t rlen;
+    char *res;
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+
+    res = rccSizedRecode(ctx, v2?ID3V2_CLASS:ID3_CLASS, UTF_CLASS, s.c_str(), s.length(), &rlen);
+#ifdef RCC_DEBUG
+    for (const unsigned char *c = (const unsigned char*)s.c_str(); *c; c++) {
+	if (*c > 127) {
+	    printf(" InputID3(%i): %s - %s\n", v2, s.c_str(), res?res:"null");
+	    break;
+	}
+    }
+#endif /* RCC_DEBUG */
+    if (res) v.setData(res, rlen + 1);
+    else
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+    v.setData("", 0);
+
+    return v;
+}
+
+TagLib::String::Type rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t len;
+    char charset[32];
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+    if (!rccLocaleGetCharset(charset, NULL, 31)) {
+	if (!strncmp(charset, "UTF", 3)) {
+	    len = strlen(charset);
+	    
+	    if (charset[len-1]=='8') return TagLib::String::UTF8;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-2),"16")) return TagLib::String::UTF16;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-4),"16LE")) return TagLib::String::UTF16LE;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-4),"16BE")) return TagLib::String::UTF16BE;
+	}
+	return TagLib::String::Latin1;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+    return TagLib::String::UTF8;
+}
+
+TagLib::String::Type rccTaglibPatchGetID3Type() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    size_t len;
+    const char *charset;
+
+    rccTaglibPatchTryInit();
+    
+    charset = rccGetCurrentCharsetName(ctx, ID3V2_CLASS);
+    if (charset) {
+	if (!strncmp(charset, "UTF", 3)) {
+	    len = strlen(charset);
+	    
+	    if (charset[len-1]=='8') return TagLib::String::UTF8;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-2),"16")) return TagLib::String::UTF16;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-4),"16LE")) return TagLib::String::UTF16LE;
+	    if (!strcmp(charset+(len-4),"16BE")) return TagLib::String::UTF16BE;
+	}
+	return TagLib::String::Latin1ID3V2;
+    } else {
+	// Error or no-language configured: If Latin1ID3V2 is returned we normally will use the default unicode encoding unless Latin1 is selected by taglib
+	return TagLib::String::Latin1ID3V2;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+    return TagLib::String::Latin1;
+}
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.h taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.h
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.h	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/rccpatch.h	2019-09-01 08:32:29.578443805 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#ifndef _RCC_PATCH_H
+#define _RCC_PATCH_H
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include "tstring.h"
+#include "tbytevector.h"
+
+void rccTaglibPatchFree();
+void rccTaglibPatchInit();
+void rccTaglibPatchSetContext(void *newctx);
+
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutput(const std::string &s);
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeInput(const std::string &s);
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutputID3(const std::string &s, bool v2 = false);
+TagLib::ByteVector rccTaglibPatchRecodeInputID3(const std::string &s, bool v2 = false);
+
+TagLib::String::Type rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+TagLib::String::Type rccTaglibPatchGetID3Type();
+
+#endif /* _RCC_PATCH_H */
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp	2019-09-01 08:27:18.763821274 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <trefcounter.h>
 #include <tutils.h>
 
+#include "rccpatch.h"
 #include "tstring.h"
 
 namespace
@@ -48,16 +49,6 @@
       return String::UTF16BE;
   }
 
-  // Converts a Latin-1 string into UTF-16(without BOM/CPU byte order)
-  // and copies it to the internal buffer.
-  void copyFromLatin1(std::wstring &data, const char *s, size_t length)
-  {
-    data.resize(length);
-
-    for(size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i)
-      data[i] = static_cast<unsigned char>(s[i]);
-  }
-
   // Converts a UTF-8 string into UTF-16(without BOM/CPU byte order)
   // and copies it to the internal buffer.
   void copyFromUTF8(std::wstring &data, const char *s, size_t length)
@@ -73,6 +64,36 @@
       debug("String::copyFromUTF8() - UTF8-CPP error: " + message);
       data.clear();
     }
+
+  }
+
+  // Converts a Latin-1 string into UTF-16(without BOM/CPU byte order)
+  // and copies it to the internal buffer.
+  void copyFromLatin1(std::wstring &data, const char *s, size_t length, bool prepare, String::Type t)
+  {
+     // librcc conversation
+    if (prepare) {
+      ByteVector v;
+      std::string std_s(s);
+
+      if (t == String::Latin1ID3) v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeInputID3(std_s, false);
+      else if (t == String::Latin1ID3V2) v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeInputID3(std_s, true);
+      else /* Latin1 converted from Locale */ v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeInput(std_s);
+
+      if (v.size()) {
+        copyFromUTF8(data, v.data(), v.size());
+        return;
+      } else {
+	// We don't know if we got UTF-8 encoded string or either rcc is disable or something is failed,
+	// since standard applications are really expecting here Latin1, it is safe to just check if we have violations of UTF8
+	//if (Unicode::isLegalUTF8(s)) t = UTF8;
+      } 
+    }
+
+    data.resize(length);
+
+    for(size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i)
+      data[i] = static_cast<unsigned char>(s[i]);
   }
 
   // Helper functions to read a UTF-16 character from an array.
@@ -175,8 +196,11 @@
 String::String(const std::string &s, Type t) :
   d(new StringPrivate())
 {
+  if(t == Locale)
+    t = rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+
   if(t == Latin1)
-    copyFromLatin1(d->data, s.c_str(), s.length());
+    copyFromLatin1(d->data, s.c_str(), s.length(), true, t);
   else if(t == String::UTF8)
     copyFromUTF8(d->data, s.c_str(), s.length());
   else {
@@ -223,8 +247,11 @@
 String::String(const char *s, Type t) :
   d(new StringPrivate())
 {
-  if(t == Latin1)
-    copyFromLatin1(d->data, s, ::strlen(s));
+  if(t == Locale)
+    t = rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+
+  if(t == Latin1 || t == Latin1ID3 || t == Latin1ID3V2)
+    copyFromLatin1(d->data, s, ::strlen(s), true, t);
   else if(t == String::UTF8)
     copyFromUTF8(d->data, s, ::strlen(s));
   else {
@@ -245,8 +272,11 @@
 String::String(char c, Type t) :
   d(new StringPrivate())
 {
-  if(t == Latin1)
-    copyFromLatin1(d->data, &c, 1);
+  if(t == Locale)
+    t = rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+
+  if(t == Latin1 || t == Latin1ID3 || t == Latin1ID3V2)
+    copyFromLatin1(d->data, &c, 1, true, t);
   else if(t == String::UTF8)
     copyFromUTF8(d->data, &c, 1);
   else {
@@ -260,8 +290,11 @@
   if(v.isEmpty())
     return;
 
-  if(t == Latin1)
-    copyFromLatin1(d->data, v.data(), v.size());
+  if(t == Locale)
+    t = rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+
+  if(t == Latin1 || t == Latin1ID3 || t == Latin1ID3V2)
+    copyFromLatin1(d->data, v.data(), v.size(), true, t);
   else if(t == UTF8)
     copyFromUTF8(d->data, v.data(), v.size());
   else
@@ -416,8 +449,38 @@
 
 ByteVector String::data(Type t) const
 {
-  switch(t)
-  {
+  ByteVector v;
+
+  if (t == Locale) {
+        // The source is either Unicode or real Latin1 (if rcc is bypassed)
+    std::string s = to8Bit(true);
+
+        // In case of UTF8 locale, this probably will return NULL (no recoding needed), but we will take UTF8 path in the next swtich
+    v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutput(s);
+    if (v.size()) return v;
+
+    t = rccTaglibPatchGetLocaleType();
+  }
+
+  switch(t) {
+  case Latin1ID3:
+  case Latin1ID3V2:
+    {
+      std::string s = to8Bit(true);
+      if (t == Latin1ID3) v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutputID3(s, false);
+      else if (t == Latin1ID3V2) v = rccTaglibPatchRecodeOutputID3(s, true);
+      if (v.size()) 
+        return v;
+      
+          // we don't know if we got NULL because rcc is disabled (error) or UTF8 output is required
+      if ((t == Latin1ID3V2)&&(rccTaglibPatchGetID3Type() == UTF8)) {
+          v.setData(s.c_str(), s.length());
+      } else {
+          for(wstring::const_iterator it = d->data.begin(); it != d->data.end(); it++)
+            v.append(char(*it));
+      }
+      return v;
+    }
   case Latin1:
     {
       ByteVector v(size(), 0);
@@ -741,7 +804,33 @@
 
 std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &s, const TagLib::String &str)
 {
-  s << str.to8Bit();
+  TagLib::ByteVector bv = str.data(TagLib::String::Locale);
+  s << bv;
   return s;
 }
 
+TagLib::String::Type TagLib::String::ID3Type(int i)
+{
+  if(i == Latin1)
+    return Latin1ID3V2;
+  return Type(i);
+};
+
+TagLib::String::Type TagLib::String::ID3WType(Type type)
+{
+  Type rcc_type = rccTaglibPatchGetID3Type();
+  if((rcc_type == Latin1ID3)||(rcc_type == Latin1ID3V2)||(rcc_type == Latin1)) {
+    if(type == Latin1) return
+      rcc_type;
+    return type;
+  }
+
+  return rcc_type;
+};
+
+TagLib::String::Type TagLib::String::ID3RealType(Type type)
+{
+  if((type == Latin1ID3) || (type == Latin1ID3V2))
+    return Latin1;
+  return type;
+}
diff -dPNur taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/tstring.h taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/tstring.h
--- taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c/taglib/toolkit/tstring.h	2018-10-28 14:43:45.000000000 +0100
+++ taglib-5cb589a5b82c13ba8f0542e5e79629da7645cb3c-ds/taglib/toolkit/tstring.h	2019-09-01 08:32:29.579443823 +0200
@@ -96,6 +96,18 @@
      */
     enum Type {
       /*!
+       * Determine using current locale settings
+       */
+      Locale = -1,
+      /*!
+       * Latin1 for ID3 tags.
+       */
+      Latin1ID3 = 65,
+      /*!
+       * Latin1 for ID3v2 tags.
+       */
+      Latin1ID3V2 = 66,
+      /*!
        * IS08859-1, or <i>Latin1</i> encoding.  8 bit characters.
        */
       Latin1 = 0,
@@ -117,6 +129,10 @@
        */
       UTF16LE = 4
     };
+    
+    static Type ID3Type(int i);
+    static Type ID3WType(Type type);
+    static Type ID3RealType(Type type);
 
     /*!
      * Constructs an empty String.