International Settings on XP, IE & Media Player

[Patrick]

Using
Windows XP Professional with SP1 (English Version)
Media Player 9.00.00.3075 (English Version)
Internet Explorer (English Version)

I found that in order to get Media Player to display songs name that is
encoded in Chinese, I have to
1) Select under winXP|Start Menu|Settings|Control Panel|Regional Settings
2) Select Languages tab-> Install files for East Asian Language
3) Reboot
4) Select under winXP|Start Menu|Settings|Control Panel|Regional Settings
5) select Advanced tab-> Language for non-unicode programs, seleect Chinese
(Hong Kong SAR) or Chinese (Taiwan)
6) Reboot

I found that the above would display songs name in Traditional Chinese for
MOST songs (in MP3).

Issues:
1) It does NOT display chinese name for some MP3s
2) When opening up webpages, which does not has the following tags, the
character encoding defaults to Chinese Traditional(BIG-5)
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Question:
How could I get Media Player 9 to display chinese song names for all songs
without affecting the default character encoding for web pages displayed in
IE?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit the "Official" Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Windows Media Player FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx

Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ (Excellent Site!)
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Windows Media Player Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp

--
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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Using
| Windows XP Professional with SP1 (English Version)
| Media Player 9.00.00.3075 (English Version)
| Internet Explorer (English Version)
|
| I found that in order to get Media Player to display songs name that is
| encoded in Chinese, I have to
| 1) Select under winXP|Start Menu|Settings|Control Panel|Regional Settings
| 2) Select Languages tab-> Install files for East Asian Language
| 3) Reboot
| 4) Select under winXP|Start Menu|Settings|Control Panel|Regional Settings
| 5) select Advanced tab-> Language for non-unicode programs, seleect Chinese
| (Hong Kong SAR) or Chinese (Taiwan)
| 6) Reboot
|
| I found that the above would display songs name in Traditional Chinese for
| MOST songs (in MP3).
|
| Issues:
| 1) It does NOT display chinese name for some MP3s
| 2) When opening up webpages, which does not has the following tags, the
| character encoding defaults to Chinese Traditional(BIG-5)
| <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
|
| Question:
| How could I get Media Player 9 to display chinese song names for all songs
| without affecting the default character encoding for web pages displayed in
| IE?

 

[Patrick]

Thanks, but the FAQs doesn't deal with this issue, which I believe is a
character encoding issue to do with Windows XP, Media Player and/or Internet
Explorer.