diff --git a/media/libmedia/MediaScannerClient.cpp b/media/libmedia/MediaScannerClient.cpp
index 93a4a4c..1661f04 100644
--- a/media/libmedia/MediaScannerClient.cpp
+++ b/media/libmedia/MediaScannerClient.cpp
@@ -14,217 +14,57 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+//#define LOG_NDEBUG 0
+#define LOG_TAG "MediaScannerClient"
+#include <utils/Log.h>
+
 #include <media/mediascanner.h>
 
+#include "CharacterEncodingDetector.h"
 #include "StringArray.h"
 
-#include "autodetect.h"
-#include "unicode/ucnv.h"
-#include "unicode/ustring.h"
-
 namespace android {
 
 MediaScannerClient::MediaScannerClient()
-    :   mNames(NULL),
-        mValues(NULL),
-        mLocaleEncoding(kEncodingNone)
+    :   mEncodingDetector(NULL)
 {
 }
 
 MediaScannerClient::~MediaScannerClient()
 {
-    delete mNames;
-    delete mValues;
+    delete mEncodingDetector;
 }
 
 void MediaScannerClient::setLocale(const char* locale)
 {
-    if (!locale) return;
-
-    if (!strncmp(locale, "ja", 2))
-        mLocaleEncoding = kEncodingShiftJIS;
-    else if (!strncmp(locale, "ko", 2))
-        mLocaleEncoding = kEncodingEUCKR;
-    else if (!strncmp(locale, "zh", 2)) {
-        if (!strcmp(locale, "zh_CN")) {
-            // simplified chinese for mainland China
-            mLocaleEncoding = kEncodingGBK;
-        } else {
-            // assume traditional for non-mainland Chinese locales (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore)
-            mLocaleEncoding = kEncodingBig5;
-        }
-    }
+    mLocale = locale; // not currently used
 }
 
 void MediaScannerClient::beginFile()
 {
-    mNames = new StringArray;
-    mValues = new StringArray;
+    delete mEncodingDetector;
+    mEncodingDetector = new CharacterEncodingDetector();
 }
 
 status_t MediaScannerClient::addStringTag(const char* name, const char* value)
 {
-    if (mLocaleEncoding != kEncodingNone) {
-        // don't bother caching strings that are all ASCII.
-        // call handleStringTag directly instead.
-        // check to see if value (which should be utf8) has any non-ASCII characters
-        bool nonAscii = false;
-        const char* chp = value;
-        char ch;
-        while ((ch = *chp++)) {
-            if (ch & 0x80) {
-                nonAscii = true;
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (nonAscii) {
-            // save the strings for later so they can be used for native encoding detection
-            mNames->push_back(name);
-            mValues->push_back(value);
-            return OK;
-        }
-        // else fall through
-    }
-
-    // autodetection is not necessary, so no need to cache the values
-    // pass directly to the client instead
-    return handleStringTag(name, value);
-}
-
-static uint32_t possibleEncodings(const char* s)
-{
-    uint32_t result = kEncodingAll;
-    // if s contains a native encoding, then it was mistakenly encoded in utf8 as if it were latin-1
-    // so we need to reverse the latin-1 -> utf8 conversion to get the native chars back
-    uint8_t ch1, ch2;
-    uint8_t* chp = (uint8_t *)s;
-
-    while ((ch1 = *chp++)) {
-        if (ch1 & 0x80) {
-            ch2 = *chp++;
-            ch1 = ((ch1 << 6) & 0xC0) | (ch2 & 0x3F);
-            // ch1 is now the first byte of the potential native char
-
-            ch2 = *chp++;
-            if (ch2 & 0x80)
-                ch2 = ((ch2 << 6) & 0xC0) | (*chp++ & 0x3F);
-            // ch2 is now the second byte of the potential native char
-            int ch = (int)ch1 << 8 | (int)ch2;
-            result &= findPossibleEncodings(ch);
-        }
-        // else ASCII character, which could be anything
-    }
-
-    return result;
-}
-
-void MediaScannerClient::convertValues(uint32_t encoding)
-{
-    const char* enc = NULL;
-    switch (encoding) {
-        case kEncodingShiftJIS:
-            enc = "shift-jis";
-            break;
-        case kEncodingGBK:
-            enc = "gbk";
-            break;
-        case kEncodingBig5:
-            enc = "Big5";
-            break;
-        case kEncodingEUCKR:
-            enc = "EUC-KR";
-            break;
-    }
-
-    if (enc) {
-        UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
-
-        UConverter *conv = ucnv_open(enc, &status);
-        if (U_FAILURE(status)) {
-            ALOGE("could not create UConverter for %s", enc);
-            return;
-        }
-        UConverter *utf8Conv = ucnv_open("UTF-8", &status);
-        if (U_FAILURE(status)) {
-            ALOGE("could not create UConverter for UTF-8");
-            ucnv_close(conv);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // for each value string, convert from native encoding to UTF-8
-        for (int i = 0; i < mNames->size(); i++) {
-            // first we need to untangle the utf8 and convert it back to the original bytes
-            // since we are reducing the length of the string, we can do this in place
-            uint8_t* src = (uint8_t *)mValues->getEntry(i);
-            int len = strlen((char *)src);
-            uint8_t* dest = src;
-
-            uint8_t uch;
-            while ((uch = *src++)) {
-                if (uch & 0x80)
-                    *dest++ = ((uch << 6) & 0xC0) | (*src++ & 0x3F);
-                else
-                    *dest++ = uch;
-            }
-            *dest = 0;
-
-            // now convert from native encoding to UTF-8
-            const char* source = mValues->getEntry(i);
-            int targetLength = len * 3 + 1;
-            char* buffer = new char[targetLength];
-            // don't normally check for NULL, but in this case targetLength may be large
-            if (!buffer)
-                break;
-            char* target = buffer;
-
-            ucnv_convertEx(utf8Conv, conv, &target, target + targetLength,
-                    &source, (const char *)dest, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, TRUE, TRUE, &status);
-            if (U_FAILURE(status)) {
-                ALOGE("ucnv_convertEx failed: %d", status);
-                mValues->setEntry(i, "???");
-            } else {
-                // zero terminate
-                *target = 0;
-                mValues->setEntry(i, buffer);
-            }
-
-            delete[] buffer;
-        }
-
-        ucnv_close(conv);
-        ucnv_close(utf8Conv);
-    }
+    mEncodingDetector->addTag(name, value);
+    return OK;
 }
 
 void MediaScannerClient::endFile()
 {
-    if (mLocaleEncoding != kEncodingNone) {
-        int size = mNames->size();
-        uint32_t encoding = kEncodingAll;
+    mEncodingDetector->detectAndConvert();
 
-        // compute a bit mask containing all possible encodings
-        for (int i = 0; i < mNames->size(); i++)
-            encoding &= possibleEncodings(mValues->getEntry(i));
-
-        // if the locale encoding matches, then assume we have a native encoding.
-        if (encoding & mLocaleEncoding)
-            convertValues(mLocaleEncoding);
-
-        // finally, push all name/value pairs to the client
-        for (int i = 0; i < mNames->size(); i++) {
-            status_t status = handleStringTag(mNames->getEntry(i), mValues->getEntry(i));
-            if (status) {
-                break;
-            }
+    int size = mEncodingDetector->size();
+    if (size) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+            const char *name;
+            const char *value;
+            mEncodingDetector->getTag(i, &name, &value);
+            handleStringTag(name, value);
         }
     }
-    // else addStringTag() has done all the work so we have nothing to do
-
-    delete mNames;
-    delete mValues;
-    mNames = NULL;
-    mValues = NULL;
 }
 
 }  // namespace android