Problems with Filenames with Chinese Characters

I seem to have problems with filenames with 2-byte characters like Chinese, Japanese and Korean in various apps. The problems occur when i download chinese music and import into iTunes :
1. Torrent ( and all other ) files with 2-byte characters filename become junk characters in Finder after download from Safari.
2. Music files created/downloaded by uTorrent displays 2-byte characters correctly in Finder.
3. These downloaded music files when imported into iTunes becomes junk characters.
4. Let say I wish to have a list of all filenames from (2). I do a ls -R > abc.txt in Terminal. abc.txt displays the filenames correctly in vi. However they become junk characters again when view using TextEdit.

I've selected Chinese, Japanese, Korean in International setting. This is not about input method, just want to get the filenames correct in Finder and iTunes. Any advice is appreciated.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 24, 2009 8:56 PM

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Aug 25, 2009 5:54 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Got no 4 solved. Thanks.
I also found out another way of doing it is to highlights all the files, and 'copy' and 'paste with match style' into TextEdit.

Thanks for the info on no 3. However it's too cumbersome, I might just edit the info manually.

I just thought all of these would have been 'automatic' since I've added Chinese and Japanese character set in International settings, as well as all the apps. It looks like the settings is for viewing only, and the encoding part is not automatic.

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