iPod cannot show chinese character now, previously can

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iPod cannot show chinese character now, previously can

Hi everyone,

Thanks for trying to help.

So I have some songs with Chinese characters in the song names. They work perfectly fine, I mean before, when they become symbols, I just use the ID3Mod to convert them and import them into my iPod nano and I can see all right names.

Now, I don;t know what happened, I just discovered today. I found that most of the chinese characters cannot be displayed, they did not become strange monsters symbols, but " " blank.
Do Anyone have any idea what have happened ?

The thing I did today is just import a few new songs.

P.S: those names shown perfectly well in iTunes

Thanks very much.

Message was edited by: memoryrecalls

Macbook (white), Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Dec 8, 2008 1:51 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 20, 2009 8:31 PM in response to memoryrecalls

I've got the same problem with itunes, quicktime, and also imported Safari bookmarks (the list is doubtless longer than that, but that's what I use and have noticed so far)
The OS recognises the Chinese, in fact in most cases I wrote the Chinese text in Mac OSX, and it displays the text correctly in the file name but when you open in itunes or quicktime it's scrambled into nonsense.
Since Chinese people constitute 1.3 Billion consumers that's a pretty poor show from Apple.. (LOL)

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Feb 21, 2009 5:38 AM in response to Fergus Meiklejohn1

when you open in itunes or quicktime it's scrambled into nonsense.

Correct display in iTunes requires that the ID3 tags be in Unicode and not one of the legacy Chinese encodings. If it has never displayed correctly before, then you can try converting them using ID3Mod. If they used to be OK and have suddenly gone bad, I don't know what causes that.

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