Ahh yah this is a silly language issue. The thing is with Chinese it could be using BIG5 or GB encoding. And Japanese it might be J-SHIFT or the other common language encoding. But iTunes uses Unicode.
Unicode is probably best now because it supports all languages and things like BIG5 and J-SHIFT were hacks to allow Asian languages before there was a read standard.
If you want to you can use NJStar and do a lot of cut and pasting. :/
The other option, which is what I use because I'm lazy, is look up the album on yesasia.com. Find the album and switch the web page to either Chinese/Japanese and copy and paste the correctly appearing characters in iTunes.
My mom uses NJStar to type. XD But uhm...so basically if I do c/p the correct characs, iTunes will show it correctly instead of reverting back to symbols/boxes?
Why not look up a Japanese or Chinese music player program (if that's possible)? Otherwise, I think uninstalling and reinstalling is the only way to go about (maybe) fixing the code problem. =\
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Unicode is probably best now because it supports all languages and things like BIG5 and J-SHIFT were hacks to allow Asian languages before there was a read standard.
If you want to you can use NJStar and do a lot of cut and pasting. :/
The other option, which is what I use because I'm lazy, is look up the album on yesasia.com. Find the album and switch the web page to either Chinese/Japanese and copy and paste the correctly appearing characters in iTunes.
Ether way it's a pain in the ass.
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My mom uses NJStar to type. XD But uhm...so basically if I do c/p the correct characs, iTunes will show it correctly instead of reverting back to symbols/boxes?
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Cuz I also have English songs. Lol.
Lemme try Oscar's way and then if not, I'll reinstall and cross my fingers and toes. :x
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