To be able to listen to my music at work I burned a DVD containing a number
of music files organised in folders. This was done at home on a computer
running Vista and burned using Nero 7. When I put the disc in the computer at
work (running XP SP2) I can no longer open any files or folders with japanese
characters in their names (and the characters are shown as squares).

Does anyone know why this is so? I have two theories, the first (less
plausible) is that it is because the computer at work does not have support
for East Asian languages installed. My second theory is that I might have
burned the disc with ISO file format and that it does not support such
characters in file-names (would UDF work better?).

--
Erik Wikström

"Erik Wikström" <Erik Wikströ(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> To be able to listen to my music at work I burned a DVD containing a
> number
> of music files organised in folders. This was done at home on a computer
> running Vista and burned using Nero 7. When I put the disc in the computer
> at
> work (running XP SP2) I can no longer open any files or folders with
> japanese
> characters in their names (and the characters are shown as squares).
>
> Does anyone know why this is so? I have two theories, the first (less
> plausible) is that it is because the computer at work does not have
> support
> for East Asian languages installed. My second theory is that I might have
> burned the disc with ISO file format and that it does not support such
> characters in file-names (would UDF work better?).
>
> --
> Erik Wikström


It's because Windows at work can't understand the japanese characters, so
replaces them with squares.

You could copy the files to the HDD and rename them. You should be able to
copy them, but many programs may give a "can't find file" error when trying
to open them.

Or install East Asian fonts etc..

"dobey" wrote:
> "Erik Wikström" <Erik Wikströ(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7D19B30A-82F5-4A81-86B1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > To be able to listen to my music at work I burned a DVD containing a
> > number
> > of music files organised in folders. This was done at home on a computer
> > running Vista and burned using Nero 7. When I put the disc in the computer
> > at
> > work (running XP SP2) I can no longer open any files or folders with
> > japanese
> > characters in their names (and the characters are shown as squares).
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is so? I have two theories, the first (less
> > plausible) is that it is because the computer at work does not have
> > support
> > for East Asian languages installed. My second theory is that I might have
> > burned the disc with ISO file format and that it does not support such
> > characters in file-names (would UDF work better?).
>
> It's because Windows at work can't understand the japanese characters, so
> replaces them with squares.
>
> You could copy the files to the HDD and rename them. You should be able to
> copy them, but many programs may give a "can't find file" error when trying
> to open them.
>
> Or install East Asian fonts etc..

I cannot even copy them, I guess I will have to burn a new disc without
japanese characters, but thanks for your answer.

--
Erik Wikström