iPod Nano not displaying Twi characters

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iPod Nano not displaying Twi characters

My iPod Nano is not displaying certain Twi characters in the lyrics section even though in the lyrics sectino of my iTunes, it is being displayed correctly. Below, I have pasted an example of the lyrics for this Twi (a Ghanaian language) song. I don't know if they will display correctly on the forum. The full lyrics can be found on this webpage: http://africathink.ghanathink.org/node/229

Any suggestions for help?

Lyrics: Wai deɛ ɔsua, menim sɛ ɔsua Nanso ɔno ara na mepɛ Wabie biribi so akyerɛ me Ama mereka ahyɛ a, ɛnhyɛ

PowerBook 15.2 1.25Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Feb 5, 2006 6:19 PM

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btabz

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Feb 5, 2006 6:36 PM in response to Conal Ho

See this page...
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

From that page...

Languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish

Additional language support for display of song, album and artist information: Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian

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Conal Ho Author

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Feb 5, 2006 7:26 PM in response to btabz

I wonder how I can email Apple to encourage them to include a font and encoding format on the iPod that would enable it to display Twi letters.

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btabz

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Feb 5, 2006 8:33 PM in response to Conal Ho

iPod Feedback

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Abocco

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Feb 6, 2006 11:08 AM in response to Conal Ho

I didn't know ITunes had a lyrics section.

Conal ho, am with you on getting IPod to include Twi characters in its database.
Are you able to incorporate the characters into ITunes already?

You can find out more info about Twi characters at http://www.kasa.ghanathink.org/localization

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Conal Ho Author

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Feb 6, 2006 1:09 PM in response to Abocco

Yes, iTunes 6.0 has a section where you can add lyrics to your songs. Downlaod the latest version.

Cheers,
Conal

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Conal Ho Author

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Mar 18, 2006 5:44 PM in response to Abocco

Yes, I can basically incorporate Twi characters into iTunes. In fact, Mac OS X 10.4.5 (and I'm sure earlier verisons too) are ready to use Twi characters. The problem isn't with OS X. The problem is with the iPod nano.

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