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[XnmE]

Hi
Why XMP doesnt display russian letters in song titles?

[Dotpitch]

are you running winXP? i believe win98 doesn't have unicode support, so the characters get all mixed up. are the filenames or tags using unicode? and, most important, does the font you're using (dependent on the skin) support russian characters?

[XnmE]

i mean tags, im using XP and default skin

[Ian @ un4seen]

As Dotpitch mentioned, are the tags unicode? Are they correct in other players? If so, please upload the file, and screenshots of what the tags look like in XMPlay and the other player...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming/

[XnmE]

i know nothing about unicode. Tags arent correct in Winamp too. Filename look well in windows explorer, but tags not. Unfortunately i cant change tags (only to read)

[XnmE]

files uploaded

[Rich Nagel]

Not sure, but could this problem be somehow related? -> http://un4seen.com/forum/?topic=4597.0

[Ian @ un4seen]

The file only has ID3v1 tags, not ID3v2/Unicode tags. I don't know if it's possible to properly have Russian in an ID3v1 tag, but I guess the fact it looks wrong in Winamp too, suggests that it's the tags that are at fault?

[XnmE]

tnx

[Rah'Dick]

The tags might look correct on a system with a russian codepage. I recently ran into an archive full of borked  japanese filenames. I did this to convert them (thanks to Ralesk for help with this procedure):

If the tags look like this:

03-SüESüEL ü`âXü[âpü[üEâXâyâVâââïüEâëâuü`.mp3

Get EditPad Pro, paste the tag there and chose "Convert - ANSI to OEM". After this, it should look like this:

03-S�ES�EL �`ƒX�[ƒp�[�EƒXƒyƒVƒƒƒ‹�Eƒ‰ƒu�`.mp3

Then save the file and drag it into Firefox or whatever browser you use, then chose the font encoding which you think might be the correct one. In this example, it would be Japanese (Shift-JIS). You should get this then:

03-S・S・L ～スーパー・スペシャル・ラブ～.mp3 (which is "S.S.L - Super Special Love" from Pop'n Music 5 AC CS Pop'n Music 7)