iTunes language problem

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vniow

macrumors G4

Original poster

• Dec 18, 2005

• #1

I'm having an odd problem with iTunes which is every time I try to change any information for a video (and only a video), the text comes out to some Chinese/Viatnamese/Japanese (I don't really know) characters. I tried deleting the preferences or typing what I wanted in another app and copying it into it but neither helped, anyone have any other suggestions?

 

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mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Dec 18, 2005

• #2

Strange... it's Chinese, FWIW... But that doesn't help. 😛

There was this thread a while back, in which something vaguely similar happened because of offending fonts. Is that a possibility?

 

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vniow

macrumors G4

Original poster

• Dec 18, 2005

• #3

Sounds similar although I haven't installed any new fonts since I installed the system, its strange that its showing up only when I edit video information, song info is fine.

Weird.

 

V

vniow

macrumors G4

Original poster

• Dec 18, 2005

• #4

Now its getting weirder, it seems like its only certain videos which this does funny characters to. I'm gonna try deleting those and reimporting them to see if that makes a difference.

 

superbovine

macrumors 68030

• Dec 18, 2005

• #5

try openning up ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml and editting with textedit. I would recommend though you use http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ (free software) and under the view option select "Show Invisible characters".

side-note: has anyone every tried using utf-16 in one of os x's xml files?

p.s. Vietnamese uses Roman characters.