Japanese file-names won't play...

[psychogoatee]

Hi, I can't get files with japanese characters in the name to play in Winamp. I just get question marks, and it won't play. I know this is a old issue, but the topics I found didn't help.

Somebody said disabling "bitmap fonts" fixes this, but that post was over 3 years old, and I can't find that option.

I also just downloaded the Japanese language pack for Winamp, installed into the Winamp directory. Don't notice anything different.

Thanks for the help.

[Sawg]

First off, make sure you are using Winamp 5.3. Thern check out some of the notes.

It can open and load MP3 files with Unicode/Internation filenames (make sure you have no third-party MP3 encoders installed), but the Media Library currently does not support it.

[psychogoatee]

Ok, I installed 5.3, I still had 5.24 for some reason.

I installed the new ml_local.dll, and changed those suggested settings.

So now the files do play, which is good. Of course its still just question marks in the taskbar, and some of the files still have garbled looking file names in the playlist.

[Sawg]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
The Media Library (Local Media section) still doesn't support unicode, so either don't add files with non-latin characters to the ml, or uncheck "use library title info for playlist item formatting" in Prefs > Media Library > Local Media (to make titles display correctly in the playlist window - requires updated ml_local.dll from above). If you still see incorrect characters in the playlist window then select a more appropriate font in Prefs > Playlist (eg. Arial Unicode MS).
Unicode support for the ML is planned for the next major release.
The same applies to the Taskbar icon, where you'll probably just see ?????? instead.
Note that both of these two issues require a MAJOR fix before they can be implemented.