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[SteveGoff]

I just downloaded .142, and then .150, and found that my song and album titles with foreign characters (such as vowels with umlauts) no longer show those characters but boxes. I've searched for a font with these characters, and I thought some of the common fonts contain them, but none shows these characters. How do I get these foreign characters back?

[leezer3]

Just tested, and there's nothing wrong with my foreign characters here (Mostly Japanese/ Chinese letters).
Not sure what's wrong, but some more general system info (OS, hardware, types of file) would be a helpful starting point

-Leezer-

[SteveGoff]

My OS is Windows 7 64 bit. The characters used to appear correct. When looking at the file names in Windows Explorer the word looks like this: "Sussliebchen." Here is how it appears in Media Player 15: "S￟liebchen."The only thing that changed was an upgrade to Media Player 15. I think the u and the ss used to look like they would in German, perhaps with an umlaut and a double s character.

[mdx1]

I am running Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 32-bit.  All European (composer) names are perfectly displayed (ex. Spanish, Italian, German umlauts, Norwegian and Swedish characters) in Standard and Theater Views.  Even the Polish name such as Karłowicz and Czech name such as Dvořák show up correctly. 

My music collection does not contain any names with Chinese or Japanese characters.  But it should not matter.  The Windows 7 and Vista are running Unicode.  If MC is a Unicode compliant application, it should be able to correctly show all characters in the Unicode which is like the whole world.

[SteveGoff]

Funny, but my other computer does not have this problem. I wonder what is going on.

[phalanthus]

try lucinda sans unicode

[Matt]

As mentioned, please try a different font in Options > Tree & View > Select font...

[SteveGoff]

I went through several fonts, including Unicode fonts, but the boxes remained. I'll experiment some more, including trying Luncinda Unicode. The same fonts on a different machine seem to work fine.

[Matt]

Is the issue only with newly imported files?  What happens if you manually change a value?

What if you copy and paste a value with boxes into a word processor?

Thanks.

[SteveGoff]

Sorry, but a wind storm has left me without power at home. I'll try these suggestions when I can.

[Jonahsdad]

To revive this thread, I'm experiencing the same problem.  Importing cue sheets with German characters gives the gobbledegook.  I'm running Windows 7 64 bit w/ MC 15.167.
The cue sheets, which are text files, are fine (German characters are properly displayed).  Copy the gobbledegook to Notepad or MSWord displays gobbledegook.  Imported with font set to Lucida Sans Unicode.

Any further thoughts on the problem?

[Matt]

To revive this thread, I'm experiencing the same problem.  Importing cue sheets with German characters gives the gobbledegook.  I'm running Windows 7 64 bit w/ MC 15.167.
The cue sheets, which are text files, are fine (German characters are properly displayed).  Copy the gobbledegook to Notepad or MSWord displays gobbledegook.  Imported with font set to Lucida Sans Unicode.

Any further thoughts on the problem?

Please email a copy of the CUE sheet to matt @ jriver dot com.  It's probably related to the encoding scheme used for the CUE file.

I'm out for the weekend, but will follow-up Monday with more information.

Thanks.

[Jonahsdad]

I've emailed the file.  It's somewhat moot.  I've split the cue into individual files.  As separate files they imported properly.  As a theoretical matter, there was a problem with the cue sheet.  Was it the cue file? or a MC bug?  I can't wait till Monday to find out

[JohnT]

MC was reading the cue file as Ansi data.  A fix will be in the next build.