Re: Unicode Support for Tag Editor Please...

Well, other players were failing all over themselves when a pre-release
vesrion of WMP used Unicode tabs exclusively, which is why you see the
mishmash you have now. If the player was exposing bugs in other players,
people would be all over MS's throat. Sounds weird, but I've seen it time
and time again. =\

-Zach
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"hjimmy" <hjimmy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A943F936-CCD8-4A5E-BBB0-6965FC8540D2@microsoft.com...
>I have media player 10 and it still has very poor Unicode support for the
>Tag
> Editor.
>
> Here are a few things...
> 1. The default tag is not Unicode (say if you create a new tag). If there
> is
> no need to use Unicode, then it does not use Unicode. So if your default
> non-Unicode language is Chinese, Chinese characters will NOT be coded in
> Unicode in the tag. Please just make Unicode default and make everything
> Unicode. Otherwise people with different non-Unicode language will NOT be
> able to view those tags correctly. (What I have discovered is that if you
> have something that need Unicode support in your tag, it will use Unicode.
> If
> you non-Unicode is English, all non-English characters will be Unicode.
> But
> if your non-Unicode is Chinese, only other non-Chinese and non-English
> will
> be Unicode... and that's going to be very problematic.)
>
> 2. Does not decode other language tags. Why Apple IPod from the beginning
> support all languages (in their own code page, not Unicode...) can
> successfully auto-detect and display the tags nicely, but NOT this
> advanced
> Media Player?
>
> 3. Have an option to covert tags to Unicode in the player...
>
> Somehow Microsoft just doesn't think internationally... so many problem
> with
> this non-Unicode thing... not just Media player... Make everything Unicode
> in
> default please... and try to force those programmer to support Unicode....
> AHHHH
>