Trouble with foreign characters...

[bherstuk]

Every time I try to 'update' any mp3 with any Cyrillic characters in the title they seem to get replaced with all sorts of strange ASCII characters. Does anybody know a way around this?

[jtclipper]

Which version are you using? versions earlier than 0.80 are not Unicode aware.

[bherstuk]

I guess the latest version available, so 0.80. I uninstalled it and was doing it all manually but this proved to be too much effort...

[bherstuk]

It's essentially saving the file name as this (I have taken away the numbers and band name)

Âi÷íå Ñîíöå (Eternal Sun)

Instead of

Вiчне Сонце (Eternal Sun)

[jtclipper]

If you are simply renaming then i would like you to send me an mp3 file and your tgf.ini file
If you are updating the tag fields then try to use UTF-16 encoding in Options/Tags/Id3

[bherstuk]

To your email? Or upload them to a site and just provide a link?

[jtclipper]

Anything that is convenient to you

[bherstuk]

Been a while without any net, will get this up asap.

[bherstuk]

Better late than never...

http://www.mediafire.com/?dded0d0sdmuvezo

Both files are in there. The id3 tags are correct on there (renamed on another device) Every time I go to update the tags or file name, it changes it to that mumbo-jimbo.

[jtclipper]

It has to be something your operating system, which version of windows are one are you using?

[bherstuk]

I'm using Windows 7 currently, while I was running an XP system I was having a similiar problem.

Starting to think it's due to the language limitations of the OS...

The mp3 that I showed you; the id3 tags are updated correctly, but yeah the file name changes to gobbledeegook...

The only other machine I have has a Linux distribution on it... Would TGF run on that?

[jtclipper]

It should work fine under Win7, i tested in my machine and the file renames correctly.

[bherstuk]

By the looks of things, If I update the id3 tags that are in Ukrainian on another program, then it seems to update the file name fine. If I try to add the foreign character names in TGF shit gets real.

I'll keep the Ukrainian off TGF perhaps.

[jtclipper]

Select to save ID3 tags in UTF-16 format just to see what happens

[bherstuk]

I'll find some more music titled in foreign texts and report back...