Names are not correct ...

Four · 04-17-2006, 12:07 PM

When downloading some russian songs, the "names" displayed on filename and title etc... are just letters, not even russian letters, basicly a bunch of "A"'s and "E"'s with dots ontop and below. Whats that? How may I correct without manually renaming them?

Thanks!

Penguin of Wonder · 04-17-2006, 12:25 PM

Is your computer setup in Russian? If not make sure you've installed Russian language support. Your computer dosen't have the proper fonts and such installed to display Russian characters. Thats why your seeing random As and Es.

Four · 04-17-2006, 02:06 PM

Yes my computer has support for Russian. I can type in Russian, and read stuff on the internet in Russian. Also my mp3 player also display's those random E's and A's. However if I change the name's appropriatly using Russian letters, my mp3 player display's the names correctly.

Four · 04-17-2006, 09:59 PM

I got a russian font, and copyed some text pasted it. Changed the font, and I see the letters make sense. Clearly this text is not unicode, how may I change it to unicode? [Not manually each file]

Thanks!

Penguin of Wonder · 04-17-2006, 11:41 PM

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, after my first attempt at solving your problem I ran out of guesses!

Mara · 04-19-2006, 05:28 PM

Unfortunatelly there are more encodings for Russian. I won't copy the whole list (it's long), but if you're using Firefox (any other browser should have a similar option) look into View->Character Encoding->More Encodings->East European. Your files may use any of them.