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Nobitakun 7th May 2006 13:24

Winamp Unicode 100% full support
 
Let's see. The problem I'm having is that my winamp can't read japanese/chinese/korean name's music. I wonder why this program has that much problems with languages, Winamp is so famous and developers don't know still how to solve lang problems?. Or maybe they don't really want? (maybe two versions, one of them unicode?). But all this problem isn't because of programmers of programs, it's because of Windows. Bill Gates is silly, and he didn't implemented Unicode system (or maybe there's a reason I don't know? in such case, I would want him to explain it...). If he did force to all programmers to use unicode, we wouldn't have these kind of problems....as Linux does....

P.D: I very wish new Windows is 100% unicode-only, because Winamp isn't the only program I'm having problems with, as you can guess. I have pics with chinese/japanese/korean names too, as well as TXT and other things that only very few programs can read...

JonnyMac 7th May 2006 13:42

Yes, Winamp is not 100% Unicode compatible. Winamp was developed before Unicode became a fad. Full Unicode support (or at least something very close) is incrementally being implemented with future releases of Winamp. Please don't ask for an ETA for full support.

For the display of Unicode titles/tags, there are some workarounds, but no guarantees...
Quote:

From the Common Issues section of the Troubleshooters Sticky...

Displaying international characters / languages / unicode issues:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=195473
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=162381
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=153885
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=65914
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=73418

Help with displaying alternate fonts / international characters
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=233659
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....59#post1812359
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....97#post1313997
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....14#post1434014
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=153885
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=231658


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