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Prisoner416:
I'm running XP Service pack 3 with Japanese Unicode support, Foobar2000 displays the tags properly.

Vague Rant:
Ditto saratoga, I just see gibberish, and it looks like you're using ID3v1 only (old, old, incredibly old school tags) which don't even support unicode-formatted text.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Prisoner416 on July 17, 2010, 10:17:55 PM ---I'm running XP Service pack 3 with Japanese Unicode support, Foobar2000 displays the tags properly.

--- End quote ---

Yes, but your tags aren't unicode, which is why they don't work on anything but your PC.  Since your foobar can read the tags, have it rewrite them.  Test it first to make sure the tags get converted to unicode correctly though.

Prisoner416:
Is there a tool to convert Japanese (and other symbols if possible) into Unicode?

pixelma:
The tags can be displayed completely correct (as far as I can tell, I don't read Japanese but it looks correctly) in Rockbox by adjusting the "Default Codepage" settings under "General Settings > Display".

This setting was especially created for this use case. If I understand correctly, ID3v1 tag are written in the local codepage of the system you create them - with with no way for the system that reads them to tell what codepage this is. By setting the above mentioned option to "Japanese", Rockbox can interpret them correctly (which on the other hand could mean that some of your other tracks are displayed wrong if the tags were created differently).

All in all you are better off tagging the files again as mentioned in a more appropriate tag format. As far as I understood ID3v2.3 can be unicode or any other codepage, ID3v2.4 is always unicode. Any decent tag editor should be able to write these tags for you and let you chose which ID3 format you want to tag. Many of them can also batch convert files - have a look at our UsefulTools wiki page for some suggestions.

P.S. Usually I would link to the specific part in one of our online manuals for the description of an option but they are broken today, the PDF versions are still up though and you can read about the "Default Codepage" setting in the Clip+ manual available here: Daily Manuals. It's a helpful read anyway. ;)

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