um can someone help i am so desperate i cried yesterday
i reinstalled my windows xp professional (english) a few days ago
and backed every up from my last windows in an external hard disc
yesterday i reload everything back into my laptop now...
and installed service pack 2 as well.
but then my windows media player 10 won't display correct chinese characters
in the now playing...
and then i checked the files properties
and advance tag editor
they are in funny display (unicode?) as well..
why?!
but some of them can display (1 out of 100 can be displayed correctly)

can someone please help me??????

thanks.

( my laptop can see chinese perfectly in websites and type chinese
perfectly.. thanks)

sash wrote:
> um can someone help i am so desperate i cried yesterday
> i reinstalled my windows xp professional (english) a few days ago
> and backed every up from my last windows in an external hard disc
> yesterday i reload everything back into my laptop now...
> and installed service pack 2 as well.
> but then my windows media player 10 won't display correct chinese characters
> in the now playing...
> and then i checked the files properties
> and advance tag editor
> they are in funny display (unicode?) as well..
> why?!
> but some of them can display (1 out of 100 can be displayed correctly)
>
> can someone please help me??????

Re-enable East Asian character support for Windows XP from Control Panel
-> Regional and Language settings dialog. When Windows XP is thus
enabled, programs like WMP can take advantage of it.

This could have been discovered by looking up "Chinese" in Windows Help.

i already did!
ages ago! but it still woudln't display properly!

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> sash wrote:
> > um can someone help i am so desperate i cried yesterday
> > i reinstalled my windows xp professional (english) a few days ago
> > and backed every up from my last windows in an external hard disc
> > yesterday i reload everything back into my laptop now...
> > and installed service pack 2 as well.
> > but then my windows media player 10 won't display correct chinese characters
> > in the now playing...
> > and then i checked the files properties
> > and advance tag editor
> > they are in funny display (unicode?) as well..
> > why?!
> > but some of them can display (1 out of 100 can be displayed correctly)
> >
> > can someone please help me??????
>
> Re-enable East Asian character support for Windows XP from Control Panel
> -> Regional and Language settings dialog. When Windows XP is thus
> enabled, programs like WMP can take advantage of it.
>
> This could have been discovered by looking up "Chinese" in Windows Help.
>

sash wrote:
> i already did!

It would help to put important like information in the post.

> ages ago! but it still woudln't display properly!

Do these files display properly on other enabled systems? Otherwise it's
possible that the file names or metadata are actually not in Unicode but
in a different code-page.

i m not sure...
i have only got a laptop so i don't know
but it all displayed properly in THIS laptop before i reinstalled windows xp

is there anything i can do? :*(

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> sash wrote:
> > i already did!
>
> It would help to put important like information in the post.
>
> > ages ago! but it still woudln't display properly!
>
> Do these files display properly on other enabled systems? Otherwise it's
> possible that the file names or metadata are actually not in Unicode but
> in a different code-page.
>

sash wrote:
> i m not sure...
> i have only got a laptop so i don't know
> but it all displayed properly in THIS laptop before i reinstalled windows xp
>
> is there anything i can do? :*(

I would check that the East Asian file support was properly enabled. Can
you read other documents OK? If you use an IME, is that working OK?