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Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Hi,
how to display chinese/japanese characteres in foobar2000? I've installed east asian language support, but some characteres are not displayed properly after I modified tags with foobar2000.

Thanks

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #1 –
XP I assume? And the Default UI? And you're using unicode tags?
elevatorladylevitateme
 

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #3 –
Change fonts, just try out them until you find a working one, had the same problem in WinAMP, should probably be the same here.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Median on
Change fonts, just try out them until you find a working one, had the same problem in WinAMP, should probably be the same here.

I checked every signle font, but it's still the same.

I notice that my foobar is able to display kanas but not kanjis. Is there anyone who managed to fix this?

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #5 –
And Kanjis work in other programs on your system?
elevatorladylevitateme

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #6 –
Quote from: shakey_snake on
And Kanjis work in other programs on your system?

Hmm, no they don't (tested with Windows Media Player, QuickTime and iTunes).

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #7 –
Even with support for eastern characters installed, US/English Windows (3.x, 9x, NT, XP, Vista, & 7) fails horribly at rendering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cryllic texts.  Try either using AppLocale to force foobar to run as a Japanese program or change your regional settings for non-unicode programs to Japanese.
Start> Settings> Control Panel> Regional and Language Options> "Advanced" Tab> "Language for non-Unicode programs"

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Yotsuya on
Even with support for eastern characters installed, US/English Windows (3.x, 9x, NT, XP, Vista, & 7) fails horribly at rendering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cryllic texts.
How specifically? My foobars display those characters just fine.
Full-quoting makes you scroll past the same junk over and over.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #9 –
I am pretty sure applications like AppLocale are NOT needed, as foobar2000 itself is fully unicode-compliant. I have Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese music and foobar2000 shows all the tags correctly, without a single miss. I am using a Chinese version of Windows Vista, but I am sure any language version will do.

To the OP, please make sure you are using Unicode charactors, instead of other things like Big5-Japanese.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #10 –
Quote from: Yotsuya on
Even with support for eastern characters installed, US/English Windows (... Vista, & 7) fails horribly at rendering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cryllic texts.

Works fine here.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #11 –
all chinese stuff i download from site like verycd are displayed totally wrong, i always have to retag them from filename then it works

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #12 –
I guess that's because they use cue sheets saved in "whatever local charset", instead of something standardized (UTF-8). What is read then depends on your system locale.
Full-quoting makes you scroll past the same junk over and over.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #13 –
Quote from: Yotsuya on
Even with support for eastern characters installed, US/English Windows (3.x, 9x, NT, XP, Vista, & 7) fails horribly at rendering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cryllic texts.  Try either using AppLocale to force foobar to run as a Japanese program or change your regional settings for non-unicode programs to Japanese.
Start> Settings> Control Panel> Regional and Language Options> "Advanced" Tab> "Language for non-Unicode programs"

I started foobar2000 with AppLocale (japanese language) and it WORKS! Thanks a lot


Quote from: William on
I am pretty sure applications like AppLocale are NOT needed, as foobar2000 itself is fully unicode-compliant. I have Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese music and foobar2000 shows all the tags correctly, without a single miss. I am using a Chinese version of Windows Vista, but I am sure any language version will do.

To the OP, please make sure you are using Unicode charactors, instead of other things like Big5-Japanese.

I don't know much about this unicode/localcode stuff, so I can be wrong, but I think that the one who created the .mp3-Files did the tags in localcode. Perhaps that's why running foobar with AppLocale works.


foobar without AppLocale:
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Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #14 –
Your files are not tagged in Unicode then. If you know Chinese, I would have a suggestion for you.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #15 –
Up to foobar2000 v1.1.x worked fine, I updated to foobar2000 1.2.x and it started to display wrong.

I have windows 7 ultimate 64bit English with no display language packs installed and it worked fine I do not know why is displaying wrong now =(

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #17 –
Nevermind, I think it was something wrong when the computer started because when I rebooted it foobar displayed the kanji chars fine.

But the behavior was: instead of kanjis it displayed only "squares"

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #18 –
I thought it might be that. This is a well-known issue that has been reported here numerous times and is caused by Windows rather than foobar2000. You should find that you don’t need to restart when it occurs: you can just log out and in again. For more information, please search for the previous discussions.

Chinese/Japanese characters not displayed properly

Reply #19 –
Thank you, I will do so.

By the way, sorry for "reviving" old topics I did not pay attention to the date of this one