copied from http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/3023

Data in FreeDB is often misencoded. In Russian, it's pretty much always misencoded, I consider a couple of correctly encoded entries an occasional mistake by the submitters It'd be nice to be able to search "using an encoding". For example, I'd like to search for "ДДТ", but since it's the right encoding, I'd like to use misinterpreted latin1, so I have to convert in bash: echo "ДДТ" | iconv -t cp1251 | iconv -f latin1. I would like to have a dropdown encoding list to do that directly.